Piracy is a big problem for the music industry everywhere but in India it’s stopped the industry generating the kind of sales you might expect in such a large market.
BBC
Category archives: Music industry
The Music Industry Has 99 Problems. And They Are…
1. The value of the music recording is plunging, and has been for more than a decade. Across the board, artists are experiencing serious problems monetizing their audio release.
Digital Music News
Tidal sued for $5m over alleged copyright infringement
TIDAL failed to serve appropriate Notices Of Intent to obtain a licence to 148 musical recordings on its service from the plaintiffs – drawn from 118 copyrighted compositions.
Which Artists Are Still Holding Out on Streaming?
Pop stars, rock legends, and even entire record labels have said no to streaming their music.
Consequence of Sound
Afrique: Lancement de Musikbi, premier site de téléchargement légal de musique via sms
Musikbi est un projet qui veut assister les artistes face aux problèmes qui touchent à la piraterie et à la diffusion des œuvres d’artistes africains.
New music on vinyl: everybody loves it, but it doesn’t make much sense
The vinyl resurgence should be great for new music, right? After all, who buys records in 2015? Nerds. Curious, acquisitive types.
New Music Box
The Music Industry Needs Better
Floating in Friday’s news dump jetsam was the announcement that Bandpage has been sold to YouTube. Nothing about this is particularly remarkable. A service for artists started. They took millions of dollars in venture money. They sold to a tech giant.
This company thinks it can turn music pirates into paying customers
The music business has traditionally taken a hard-line approach to online music pirates. Once upon a time, of course, it sued them directly – but that didn’t work out too well for anyone.
Streaming killing the music business? UMG just posted its biggest revenues in a decade
Not content with becoming streaming’s first billion dollar record company, Universal Music Group posted its biggest annual revenues in a decade last year.
Will Streaming Music Kill Songwriting?
“We were emerging from this bubble,” she told me, “and I realized, ‘I have this hit. This is going to be good! Nearly three million streams on Spotify!’ And then my check came, and it was for seventeen dollars and seventy-two cents.