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The UK is one step closer to a full-blown market study of the major labels' impact on the music industry. In response to the recommendations of the recent UK parliamentary inquiry into music streaming economics, the British...

This is a guest post by David Loscos, Director of the International Music Business School. IMB School offers courses on the global music business, including its own Masters and Postgraduate courses. It also builds intensive...

This is a page of further resources to accompany Music Ally’s talk at the Circulart conference in Colombia. But don't worry if you've found it some other way: you're very welcome too!

Fanaply was one of the first startups to explore the potential of digital collectibles based on music artists, more than a year before the acronym 'NFT' was on the music industry's radar. In 2019, the company teamed up...

If you're building a platform based around superfans, launching with Taylor Swift's 'Swifties' community is a bold statement of intent. As is following that up with the famous BTS Army. This is what US-based startup Fave...

XR, Voice-as-UI, Artificial Intelligence: in StartupLand, buzzwords abound as attention-grabbing shorthand. In the real world, however, a little more caution must be applied when being lured in by the promise that buzzword...

Music Ally has reported extensively on the hearings at the British parliament’s inquiry into the economics of music streaming. Now the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) committee behind that inquiry has published...

This guest column is by Lex Hearth, founder and host of the Hot Girls Podcast: Back at the beginning of 2020, before Covid meant a thing, and restaurants didn’t feel like a new experience, my mind was mulling over the...

Happy tenth birthday, Monstercat. The Canadian electronic music label has made a habit of innovation and experimentation since being founded in 2011. In 2021, its catalogue does more than 200m audio streams a month, its...

When Lil Nas X performed a concert on gaming platform Roblox in December 2020, it was watched 33m times in a weekend over multiple viewings. Now Roblox has revealed that the show was also a success when it came to sales of...

This guest column is by Naomi Pohl, Deputy Secretary of the Musicians Union: "During the pandemic, we have turned to streaming music more and more as the world has moved online. While we have valued recorded music more...

In the last 12 months, the music industry has quickly untethered itself from the touring/streaming duopoly and more fully realised the potential of various previously-untested platforms, approaches, and products. Artists...