What the tech industry needs to learn about the music biz: Sympathy For The Devil (pt. 3)

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Apple takes its Chance to show up the music biz… as Google licks its lips

As a self-release storms the chart, what does the future hold for major rights-holders?

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Spotify’s average subscriber paid 5% less last year – but premium conversion grew 7%

The average subscriber was paying $0.28 less a month – but 31.5% of users subscribed

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Spotify must watch its spending if it wants sympathy from the music biz

The average Spotify employee is paid $107k a year. Is that lean enough for labels?The post Spotify must watch its spending if it wants sympathy from the music biz appeared first on Music Business Worldwide.

It pays out more than Spotify and is growing fast. Neighbouring rights: the music biz’s unsung hero.

How labels and artists are raking it in from TV, radio, public performance and online radio

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Spotify must now break its ‘everything free’ rule – but at what cost?

Why everything in a fractured, messed up industry currently starts and ends with YouTube

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Drake: King of Spotify, king of Apple – and making streaming history

Views has made $14m on iTunes – yet Drake’s top of the pops on Spotify

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