European revenues, piracy, and the growth in streaming platform strength are all challenges
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Rolling Stone Music Charts Launch Delayed Indefinitely
The launch of music charts on Rolling Stone has been delayed indefinitely. Originally scheduled to launch on Monday May 13th, the charts will be the first to offer a widely distributed alternative to the Billboard charts. Now however, the charts will stay in private beta "for just a while longer…
Rolling Stone launches new industry charts, taking on Billboard’s 200 and Hot 100 in the USA
Charts to launch publicly on Monday, May 13
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Rolling Stone To Challenge Billboard With Music Charts
Rolling Stone Magazine is launching multiple music charts in a direct challenge to Billboard. Data for the charts will come from BuzzAngle Music. Rollling Stone owners PMC made a strategic investment in the music data firm last year. Rolling Stone has increased its music industry coverage in recent months, including…
Why Amazon and Google’s free music tiers could spell trouble for Spotify
Spotify’s audio advertising offering could be under threat from the big boys
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5 of Spotify’s biggest imminent challenges in 2019
In many ways, Spotify enjoyed a spectacular end to 2018. The company finished the year with its first ever quarterly operating profit – €94m ($107 million) — something that challenged many of the long-term naysayers about its business model. In additio…
Over 2.3m people visited MBW last year, clocking up more than 6.5m page views
January was a record month, with over 700,000 impressions on the MBW site
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Penske Media Acquires 100% Of Rolling Stone Magazine
Penske Media Corporation, which also own Variety and Deadline, has quietly acquired full ownership n the venerable music publication Rolling Stone. Penske Media, which acquired a controlling stake in Rolling Stone in December 2017 from longtime publisher Jann Wenner, now has bought the outstanding shares from minority partner BandLab Technologies….
Why fake Beyoncé music on Spotify and Apple Music highlights streaming’s wider licensing troubles
“This sort of thing happens all the time.”
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