June 14th, 2013 by Music Ally

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We don't like to criticise other music industry sites. Partly because we're British and polite, and partly because, well, thin ice etc. Our confident prediction in 2007 that Apple was preparing to launch...

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June 10th, 2013 by Stuart Dredge

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We all love Apple; their devices are amazing and they have changed the way we all think about and interact with the digital world. What they have achieved through creating a vibrant & successful music...

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June 6th, 2013 by Stuart Dredge

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The music industry hasn't been short of good-news stories in 2013. In April, the IFPI announced that global recorded music trade revenues increased by 0.2% in 2012 – the first annual rise since 1999...

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April 29th, 2013 by Stuart Dredge

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Strange though it may seem, given our youthful good looks, Music Ally's fortnightly digital music report was already 61 issues down when Apple launched its iTunes music store in April 2003. So how were...

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April 15th, 2013 by Stuart Dredge

Ninja Jamm, the new music remix app from label Ninja Tune, has been some time in the making. Label co-founder Matt Black talked about the project last October at the ADE conference in Amsterdam, targeting...

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April 12th, 2013 by Stuart Dredge

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For most of this week, I was in Cannes for the MIPTV conference, finding out how the television industry is responding to digital disruption. The conference's MIPCube strand included a session run by...

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April 4th, 2013 by Stuart Dredge

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News that Prince's label NPG Records has been sending DMCA takedown notices to Twitter for videos posted using its Vine app shouldn't be a surprise. Prince has form when it comes to getting grumpy about...

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March 27th, 2013 by Stuart Dredge

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Do we need a 'roaming network for subscription music services'? Union Square Ventures VC Fred Wilson thinks so, and has explained why in a blog post today, comparing siloed streaming music services to...

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March 8th, 2013 by Stuart Dredge

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I've bought four albums recently. Four! And me a paying Spotify customer. And while this isn't interesting in itself, it's something of a riposte to the idea that once people start streaming music, they...

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