Business, Services And Guides For Music Labels
Nearly have of all Swedes and Norwegians are paying for a streaming service. And here’s another interesting fact: more than 60% of people in Sweden and Norway use YouTube. Across Norway, Denmark, Finland, and Sweden, 80% of inhabitants aged 12 to 65 have used at least one streaming service last year. But did you know […]
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A few pointers on getting your slice of Spotify $43.5 million songwriter settlement pie. On May 23rd, Spotify entered into a settlement agreement with songwriters over unresolved mechanical licenses. Mechanical licenses are a type of publishing license owed to songwriters that Spotify wasn’t paying. As a result, they got sued. In a class action settlement, […]
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MBW’s projections suggest Daniel Ek’s company could hit 100m subs by the end of 2018
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Exec starts new role on September 1
The post Spotify hires ex-Pandora Australia and NZ boss Jane Huxley as MD in region appeared first on Music Business Worldwide.
Daniel Ek’s company races ahead of Apple Music by adding 10m subs since March
The post Spotify storms past 60m subscribers, now adding more than 2m a month appeared first on Music Business Worldwide.
Spotify and Ed Sheeran set up huge year for the British record business
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BASCA’s Vick Bain on why Swedish service should make ‘everything clearer’ for songwriters – and for listeners
The post Why Spotify’s ‘fake artists’ issue, like so much in streaming, comes back to transparency appeared first on Music Business Worldwide.
We just bought 10,000 Spotify plays on the internet. It was easy.
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Spotify’s average subscriber used to spend more than Netflix’s. Things have changed.
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Why isn’t Spotify moving more aggressively into content ownership? Wall Street is gonna hate the answer to that question. If you want to fix Spotify’s business model, you have to fix the cost of content. Every business has costs, but Spotify’s costs are too extreme and too variable to work sustainably. Even with renegotiated deals […]
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