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Will 2021 Herald a Golden Age of Artist Partnerships for Independent Labels?
“Independent labels have an important part to play in the current landscape,” says Marathon Music Group GM, Pru…
January 21, 2021
The harsh reality about the music business, and a pantomime led by clueless self-regarders.
UK politicians just grilled the heads of the three major labels in the market. It did not go…
January 20, 2021
There’s never been a better time to be a recording artist. I hope our politicians can understand that.
Ditto Music’s Lee Parsons: “A thousand artists earned at least $84,000, just from streaming platforms, and just from…
January 19, 2021
Ex-Geffen head Neil Jacobson plots $200m US IPO to buy music rights, tech startups
New S-1 filing reveals large-scale ambitions of The Music Acquisition Corporation Source
January 18, 2021
For record labels, 2021 should be the year of empathetic A&R
“Being empathetic will help us to know our artists better, understand them well, and as a result, achieve…
January 13, 2021
Spotify, worth $67bn, has seen its share price TRIPLE in 10 months. Should Daniel Ek pay artists a ‘bonus’ to say thank you?
Spotify is still loss-making, but its market cap is so massive… should it pay a ‘phantom dividend’ to…
January 12, 2021
UK record industry nears $2bn in pandemic-hit 2020 – but streaming growth slows significantly
Subscription streaming pulls in over $1.5bn in retail revenue alone, according to ERA figures Source
January 9, 2021
Fans’ Embrace of Streaming Sustained Music During A Tumultuous Year. Why, and What Does It Mean For 2021?
DiMA CEO Garrett Levin: “Any honest reckoning of our business must examine what happens to the 69 cents of…
January 6, 2021
This Spotify chart data reveals a whole lot about the UK music industry’s last 12 months
EMI Records Streaming Manager, Alex Bingham, crunches the numbers that drove Spotify’s chart last year Source
January 5, 2021