The U.K. competition regulator said the major labels' dominance of the streaming business is not holding back artists and that the market delivers for consumers.
It's been a difficult week for Meta's music strategy, what with Epidemic Sound suing the company and Kobalt pulling its catalogue in the US.
Audius moves “power, profits, control and governance from record labels and centralized [platforms] to artists and fans,” the report says.
There's porn on Spotify, but the platform doesn't allow it.
Asking fans to pre-save your music on Spotify is a popular promotional strategy, but what do these campaigns really accomplish?
A new UK government report claims that Spotify has about 60% of the country's music streaming market, with Amazon holding up to 30%, and Apple Music in third place at around 20%.
Music creation firm BandLab is helping some of its musicians boost their profiles through a traditional technique: media coverage.
Musicube is the startup that built a suite of AI-powered metadata and music search tools, before being acquired by Songtradr this year.
In today's post, we're exploring an audio engineering concept called "summing" - and how it differs in analog vs. digital production.
Ooh La La? Not just one of our favourite old big-beat tracks, but also a fledgling service to help people discover and listen to music NFTs.
The audio giant has 422 million users and 182 million premium subs, but its growth story has been overshadowed by a profitability metric.
With exclusive licensing deals off the table in China, streaming services are moving to expand catalogues with non-exclusive agreements.
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