Spotify Loses Its Subscriber Lead Once More as the Apple Music Tug-of-War Continues In the US. Here’s the Latest Emerging Q3 DSP Data.
After regaining the top spot in H1, Spotify has once again ceded its US premium subscriber lead to Apple Music.
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Too Lost Music Group Strikes Deal with Xelon Entertainment—Expanding APAC Footprint
New York-headquartered Too Lost Music Group has entered into a definitive agreement with Xelon Entertainment, the long-running independent distributor with operations across APAC and the United Kingdom. The d... Read More...
Too Lost Music Group Promotes Six Execs As Global Expansion Continues
Too Lost Music Group, the New York-headquartered music and technology company, has announced six executive promotions across its finance, A&R, corporate development, and commercial strategy teams. Mark Va... Read More...
Will the Music Industry Ever Get a Handle on Rightsholder Payouts?
Digital formats have been around for decades. So why is the music industry still struggling with sluggish payouts, metadata mismatches, and the accumulation of enormous unpaid tranches? According to mass paym... Read More...
You Release Music and Chase The Audience
Attention loyalty and affection must be voluntary.
Congratulations. Your brand new album is on Spotify (and about 150 other music streaming platforms). Nobody has declared an international holiday, your neig... Read More...
Live Music’s New Geography
Welcome to the decentralization of opportunity.
There was a time when opportunity in music had an address in a big city. The Troubadour in Los Angeles, The Bitter End in New York and The Bluebird Cafe in Nas... Read More...
After a Brief Shocker by Apple Music, Spotify Regains Supremacy in the US-Based Subscriber Race. Here’s the Latest DSP Subscriber Data for H1 2026.
Earlier this year, DMN Pro revealed some eyebrow-raising news: Apple Music had unexpectedly moved past Spotify’s US-based premium subscriber total during the first quarter of 2026. Now, a dogfight might be emerging: per data shared and analyzed by DMN Pro, Apple quickly ceded its lead to Spotify by the end of the first half.
You Wrote the Music. Who Gets the Value? A Special Interview With One of the Most Influential Figures In Music Publishing
You can spend three weeks getting a melody right and three minutes clicking through the music publishing agreement that determines who gets paid for it. That imbalance should bother everyone who writes music.... Read More...
What Your Music Data Doesn’t Know Could Be Costing You Money
Data quality in the music business is no longer just an administrative concern — it's a revenue issue. When repertoire and rights information is incomplete, inconsistent, or poorly reconciled across the ecosy... Read More...
A Tale of Two Industries: Music AI 2.0
AI music is not going away. It is separating into a transient synthetic economy and an artist-centered business built around identity, ownership, relationships and fans.
Something fundamental is happening in... Read More...
The Return of Physical Product. Kinda…
Streaming won the listening war. Physical media found another job: making money.
Apparently physical media is back, which is wonderful news for anyone who has spent the past twenty years wondering what to do... Read More...
Spotify Doesn’t Care That I Left
My music is staying. My money and attention are leaving.
I canceled my Spotify subscription. Yes, my music is still there, and if that is where you listen to me, please enjoy it. I am not organizing a boycot... Read More...
