In our lead feature we look at SoundCloud and the growing challenges it will face in 2013.
April 10th, 2013 by Music Ally
A total of 1bn downloads have been sold in the UK to date, based on Official Charts Company data from 2004 to 2013. To get a sense of the gathering momentum, an average of 500,000 sales were happening...
April 10th, 2013 by Music Ally
IFPI revealed in its RIN 2013 report that 21 countries experienced growth in their music sales last year.
March 21st, 2013 by Music Ally
Earlier this week, we reported on a new study into online piracy by the European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC).
March 1st, 2013 by Music Ally
There was plenty of celebrating earlier this week when NPD Group announced that P2P piracy was falling in the US, just after the IFPI released figures showing music sales rising slightly in 2012.
February 27th, 2013 by Music Ally
Universal Music Group's Francis Keeling comments about the prospect of Google entering the (audio) streaming music market.
Record label revenues ROSE 0.3% in 2012 thanks to iTunes, Spotify and other streaming music services
February 26th, 2013 by Eamonn Forde
The recorded music industry has finally some good news to celebrate – with global recorded music revenues increasing for the first time since 1999. The jump may be slight (revenues were up just 0.3%...
February 20th, 2013 by Music Ally
Google was "in discussions with payment companies including Visa, Mastercard and PayPal to put illegal download websites out of existence by cutting off their funding".
January 11th, 2013 by Stuart Dredge
IFPI Norway has published its music sales figures for 2012, and they provide more evidence to support the idea that streaming music can help the industry reverse its long sales decline over the last decade....
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