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As we stand today, less than two weeks before Apple Music pops into the hands of consumers, it has some serious problems. Problems that could make the difference between the biggest launch in digital music history and not that.
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If 13% of iOS device users in the world paid $9.99-per-month for Apple Music, it would generate more cash each year than the entire recorded music biz manages right now.
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The veteran producer addressed an audience in Barcelona on Saturday: "The old copyright model – the person who creates something owns it and anyone else that wants to use it or see it has to pay them – has expired."
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Spotify just posted another big net loss. But it can become profitable. It has three options, says this analysis: Cut royalty costs to the music industry, freeze expenditure year-on-year... or somehow make free users pay $1 every three months.
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Don't spend it all at once, artists. Pandora has revealed that it's paying a 10,000th of a dollar more to music labels and artists than it was in 2014.
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Remember U2’s album giveway with Apple at the end of last summer? And how the world seemed to become very annoyed that its contents had been ‘pushed’ to their devices without permission?
Well, the naysayers might have been loud – but that hasn’t stopped the stunt having a lasting effect on the band’s popularity.
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Pandora founder Tim Westergren has claimed that the company is paying out “very fair” sums to artists, despite its per-stream royalty weighing in at just one sixth of Spotify’s.
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New record company figures out of France suggest that artists are being paid just 68 cents from every €9.99 monthly music streaming subscription – as major labels keep hold of 73% of payouts from the likes of Spotify.
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Good news for the industry's anti-piracy efforts? Or rather embarrassing for music's appeal in the big, wide world? No single music release features in the Top 100 most-torrented files in the world. Movie Nightcrawler is No.1
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We might live in an age of YouTube and Spotify being the go-to music players of teenagers, but radio was still the top method of music discovery in the US last year.
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Streaming is on course to make more money for the US music business than downloads and physical sales combined within the next three years.
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Vinyl album sales smashed records on both sides of the Atlantic in 2014, as a format that recently seemed on its last legs hit astonishing new heights.
