Warner Music Group Calls Spotify Comments ‘Appalling,’ Vows To Fight In India
The battle between Spotify and Warner Music Group's Warner/Chappell Music publishing arm continues unabated, after the pair failed to reach an agreement to licence songs to the streamer in India. . Continue reading
What Beatles 2018 Success Says About Streaming’s Future [Mark Mulligan]
Almost 50 years after The Beatles disbanded, the Fab Four remain Universal Music Group's fourth best seller of the last year. MIDiA analyst Mark Mulligan takes a fascinating dive into. Continue reading
Full Text Of Spotify, WMG Dueling Statements On India Lawsuit and Launch
After WMG filed for an injunction to stop the launch of Spotify in India on Monday, both companies issued unusually strong statements that will resonate in the coming weeks, as. Continue reading
Spotify Game ‘Top Of The Spots’ Is Truly Addictive
Top Of The Spots has a simple premise: choose which of two randomly chosen tracks on Spotify got the most cumulative plays. Playing this free game is truly addictive, particularly. Continue reading
Webcast Listening Has 12% Year On Year Growth, Spotify Averages 2.5M Simultaneous Streams
Spotify reached a record 2.5 million average simultaneous streams in October of last year, according to Triton Digital’s Top-20 ranking. Pandora stayed steady around 2 million average streams while over. Continue reading
Why Spotify Isn’t Simply A Music Company [Cherie Hu]
In this piece Cherie Hu looks at how Spotify's major investments in third party licensing deals and original podcast development are validating investor predictions and causing it to become the. Continue reading
Streaming Music Revenue Up, But Per Song Rates May Have Dropped In 2018
In this piece, Bobby Owsinski breaks down some complex recent streaming data, which highlights the disparity between the royalty rates paid out by major streamers (with YouTube coming up particularly. Continue reading
Music Streaming Rates 2018: Per Stream Rates Drop and YouTube’s Value Gap Is Very Real
[UPDATED] 2018 saw music streaming come into its own as the dominant source of recording music revenue. But as streaming volumes swelled, the YouTube value gap and its pitifully small. Continue reading
Musiio Raises $1M To Bring Spotify-Like AI To Other Music Services, Labels, Publishers
Musiio has raised a $1 million seed round to continue development of its use of artificial intelligence (AI) which brings Spotify-like discovery and curation tools to other music services and. Continue reading
