Why Competition In The Music Space Is Great And Fragmentation In The Music Space Is Dangerous

As you may have heard, Jay-Z bought himself a music streaming service, called Tidal, which is now being relaunched with lots of high profile musicians onboard — in fact as partial equity owners.

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Accordion Games: Why Spotify’s Free Service Should Constantly Grow And Contract

Spotify is feeling pressure from Universal Music Group and others to drop or drastically reduce free streaming.  But Jon Maples argues its not an either or proposition.

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What Is Jay-Z’s Radical Idea To Upend The Streaming Music Business?

Rapper and business mogul Jay-Z has an old idea that he’d like to try out on the new music business. Prior to the official announcement of his acquisition of the Swedish streaming music service Aspiro,. Continue reading

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Beats Music Trumps Spotify In Artist Payouts

In terms of subscribers and market share, Beats Music (acquired by Apple as part of its purchase of Beats in May of last year) is way behind Spotify. But there's. Continue reading

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Sony Music CEO On Spotify, Beats, YouTube, How “Free (Music) Is Death” and More

You can tell it is contract renegotiation time for music streamers, because the chorus of major label execs expressing opinions on the evils of free music is growing. Now Sony Music's. Continue reading

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Pandora Holds Lead As Top Music Streaming Service In The U.S.

 "The Infinite Dial 2015" report from Edison Research and Triton Digital took an in depth look at US music streaming revealing Pandora as the clear leader. 

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Spotify To Pay Universal Music Group $1 Billion, According To Leaked Email

Spotify is locked in difficult talks with the major labels. None are more contentious than with Universal Music, whose CEO has stated publically that it is time to change the music. Continue reading

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A Manifesto For The Future Of Free Music

In the thankfully long gone days of DRM downloads it could be fairly said that ‘music was born free yet everywhere it is in chains’. Now music is free of. Continue reading

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Apple To Relaunch Beats Music In June With No Free Tier, Lower Price

Ever since Apple acquired Beats for $3.2 billion, we've been waiting to see what they'd do with their music streaming purchase. There have been hints and leaks, but it now. Continue reading

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Dear Bands, Why Are You Still Making It So Hard To Buy Your Music?

The fact that album sales are on the steady decline is old news, but a newer, slightly shocking phenomenon is that bands are STILL making it difficult the buy their. Continue reading

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