The music industry just took a backwards step on streaming pricing… in glorious HD

The universality of HD audio at a bog-standard streaming price point makes a heck of a lot of sense for Amazon and Apple, then: it gives price-conscious customers a crucial perk to drive their desire for a hardware upgrade.For the music industry, howev…

Japanese recorded music industry hopes for recovery in 2021

Japanese music industry body the RIAJ expects the recorded music market there to make a modest recovery in 2021, after a difficult 2020 in which overall revenues fell by 9%. That included a 15% drop in physical music sales to ¥129.87bn ($1.19bn).
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Pulling Back the Curtain on Classical Music’s International Man of Mystery

After wresting control of IMG Artists in an internal power struggle, Russian-born tycoon Alexander Shustorovich has kept the agency alive through the pandemic to become the world’s largest manager of classical music talent. Billboard investigates the s…

El Covid ha provocado “una crisis devastadora” en la cultura y el arte

Algunos sectores se han colapsado. La música rock y pop en directo, que llevaba dos décadas creciendo ininterrumpida, ha visto cómo sus ingresos se hundían en un 64%, hasta quedar por debajo de los 6.000 millones de euros a nivel mundial, según la cons…