Spotify’s latest financial results: More growth, more subscribers
Spotify, streaming’s 800-pound gorilla, got a little bigger in the third quarter of 2024. Here are the numbers: If you like reading through financial results, go here.
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Oasis is having a big effect on the British and Irish economy
The Oasis reunion tour is about six weeks old and hasn’t left the UK and Ireland yet, but already it’s a massive generator of economic activity, both positive and negative. Here are some
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2023 was an insanely success year for live music: report
Pollstar, the bible of the touring industry, has issued its report for 2023. Long story short: it was a MONSTER year. In fact, it was historic. “Total grosses for the 2023 Worldwide Top
Read MoreSpotify blows the doors off Q1 results for 2022
When Netflix stock cratered last week after the company revealed that it lost subscribers for the first time, some were predicting bad things for Spotify when it announced its financial results today (April
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Spotify is big and getting bigger. Here are the latest figures.
News from Spotify today (October 27) that the streaming giant now has 172 million paying subscribers, up 19% over this time last year and up by 7 million (or 4%) in the last
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Where’s All the Revenue Coming for the Music Industry? Streaming.
Rage against it all you want, but streaming is here to stay. Take a look at this chart from Statista that underscores the notion that streaming is too big to fail.
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Streaming Now Makes More Money for the Music Industry Than CDs and Downloads But Vinyl Rules. Wait–What?
Wow. Really? Yes, according to Music Business Worldwide: Driven by streaming services like Spotify and the introduction of TIDAL and Apple Music, the overall retail income of the US recorded music market increased
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The Music Industry is Really Starting to Hate YouTube
Things are not well in the relationship between record labels and YouTube. Stories abound (like this one) that labels are thinking of pulling all their music videos from the service. The issue? YouTube
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Better Times Ahead for the Music Industry?
Maybe. Check out this graph of predictions of global recorded music revenues created by The Economist. While physical sales have a trajectory similar to a duck shot out of the sky, downloads and
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