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What the Music Industry Looked Like When Margaret Thatcher Ruled…

April 8, 2013

The year is 1987, and Margaret Thatcher was entering her third term as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Political roils aside, here's what the music industry looked like way back then... Cassettes acc... Read More...

Why YouTube’s Global Deal With Universal Publishing Isn’t Simplifying Licensing

Paul Resnikoff

April 4, 2013

The EU Commission has been complaining for a while about the difficulties of cross-border online licensing in Europe. Their aim is for users to be able to travel from country to country and still be able to ac... Read More...

What Else? Leaving Music, BBM Music, Pink Pill, Unused Media, Songza Cloning, Deezer, AutoRip This, Coachella…

Paul Resnikoff

April 4, 2013

The polite descriptor might be 'diversification,' but a growing number of entrepreneurs and companies continue to point towards business strategies that simply don't involve music. And, do involve greater reve... Read More...

Streaming Music Doesn’t Work. So Rdio Is Launching Vdio…

Paul Resnikoff

April 3, 2013

Spotify imagines a world with a billion users, healthily-paid musicians, and a scaled-out business model that makes sense. But right now, that isn't the reality, and it may never be the reality with music alon... Read More...

What Else? YouTube Music, Sketchy Playcounts, Silent Gigs, Bertelsmann+BMG, Daisy, 2013 Lollapalooza, Harlem Shake, Inc.

Paul Resnikoff

April 2, 2013

Forget about Spotify killers and Deezer mass murderers for a second. Is YouTube's expansion into subscription and curated on-demand music about to steal the oxygen supply from the entire streaming space? YouT... Read More...

If Streaming Is the Future, Songwriters Are In Deep Trouble

Helienne Lindvall

March 27, 2013

Two of the top three countries, when it comes to revenue from recorded music, have just reported the figures for last year. US revenue is down by 0.9% and Germany's is down by 3.2%, as none of the countries ha... Read More...

Exclusive: Streaming Revenues Now Surpass $1 Billion Annually In the US…

Paul Resnikoff

March 27, 2013

That's according to revenue statistics shared with Digital Music News by label trade group RIAA, and it includes everything from Spotify to Pandora to YouTube to Sirius XM Radio. Anything that falls under 'acc... Read More...

Data Shows That Most Deezer ‘Users’ Are Zombie Accounts…

Paul Resnikoff

March 26, 2013

So it turns out that despite all the heady optimism surrounding streaming services, adding subscribers is actually pretty difficult. In fact, getting non-paying free users to simply stick around also turns out... Read More...

It’s Official: Fewer People Are Buying Downloads (for the First Time In History)…

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March 25, 2013

We first reported this a few days ago, based on preliminary data shared by a top-level industry executive. Now, Nielsen Soundscan has officially revealed that a-la-carte, song downloads are declining in 2013, ... Read More...

Just Pay Me? PRS Is Now Processing 124 Billion Music Uses a Year…

Helienne Lindvall

March 21, 2013

During the Midem panel, How the Music Industry Manages Innovation (which I moderated), Incubus' manager, Steve Rennie, laid into the head of UK songwriters' collection society PRS, Robert Ashcroft. Rennie quest... Read More...

Flattr: Is This a Valid Business Model for Musicians, a Vanity Project, or a Scam?

Helienne Lindvall

March 20, 2013

In 2010 Peter Sunde, one of the men behind The Pirate Bay, launched a micro-payment venture called Flattr. While people could illegally download music and movies for free on his other venture, Sunde said Flattr... Read More...

For the First Time Ever, Song Downloads Are Declining In the US…

Paul Resnikoff

March 20, 2013

That's according to a major industry executive source, who agreed to share early-2013 paid download stats with Digital Music News this morning. The preliminary year-over-year tallies show that a-la-carte downl... Read More...

SRR Capital Launches With a VC-Style Approach to Music Investing

What Is Attribution?

So Busy With "The Quiet Time..."

Netflix Won the Streaming Wars. YouTube Changed the Rules.

Indonesia: One of the World’s Most Promising Digital Music Markets

What Politicians Could Learn from the Music Business: A Midterm Election Primer

What the Music Industry Looked Like When Margaret Thatcher Ruled…

Why YouTube’s Global Deal With Universal Publishing Isn’t Simplifying Licensing

What Else? Leaving Music, BBM Music, Pink Pill, Unused Media, Songza Cloning, Deezer, AutoRip This, Coachella…

Streaming Music Doesn’t Work. So Rdio Is Launching Vdio…

What Else? YouTube Music, Sketchy Playcounts, Silent Gigs, Bertelsmann+BMG, Daisy, 2013 Lollapalooza, Harlem Shake, Inc.

If Streaming Is the Future, Songwriters Are In Deep Trouble

Exclusive: Streaming Revenues Now Surpass $1 Billion Annually In the US…

Data Shows That Most Deezer ‘Users’ Are Zombie Accounts…

It’s Official: Fewer People Are Buying Downloads (for the First Time In History)…

Just Pay Me? PRS Is Now Processing 124 Billion Music Uses a Year…

Flattr: Is This a Valid Business Model for Musicians, a Vanity Project, or a Scam?

For the First Time Ever, Song Downloads Are Declining In the US…