EMI’s executive vice president of strategy and insight Jim Brady thinks that the music industry needs to be more creative about appealing to ‘Homo Spotifyicus’ – the new generation of […]
Author Archives: Stuart Dredge
Music Ally's Head of Insight
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A Genuine Freakshow manager Erik Nielsen weighs into Spotify payouts debate
This week’s arguments about Spotify payouts to artists and independent labels were fuelled yesterday by a tweet from musician Jon Hopkins, who’s one half of King Creosote & Jon Hopkins. […]
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AC/DC and Jimi Hendrix get new iPhone and iPad apps
Two big artists have new iOS apps this morning on Apple’s App Store: Jimi Hendrix and AC/DC. Jimi Hendrix: The Complete Experience is available for iPhone and iPad, and acts […]
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Two new reports shed more light on Spotify / streaming versus piracy
The debate around whether streaming services like Spotify cannibalise piracy will be fuelled by two new reports, one from the US and one from Sweden. The first is called The […]
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Blu Mar Ten, Spotify payouts and iTunes Europe
This week’s big digital music story is Spotify and streaming music payouts. Again. A series of independent labels and distributors have been pulling their catalogues from streaming services, citing low […]
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The Echo Nest confirms it’s powering Nokia’s Mix Radio app
We’ve written about Nokia’s Mix Radio before: it’s a feature in the company’s new Lumia 800 Windows Phone offering Pandora-style personal radio. A big deal, potentially, although Nokia has been […]
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Conduit Mobile enters the music app creation platform wars
Mobile Roadie is currently the most prominent company helping artists and labels release music apps. Conduit is its latest rival.
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mFlow winding its digital music store down ahead of new service’s debut
UK-based digital music service mFlow is winding down, as the company behind it prepares to launch a new version in 2012. The service launched in the spring of 2010 as […]
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UMG’s Rob Wells hits back at ‘irritating’ artist holdouts from Spotify
Universal Music Group’s digital boss Rob Wells has weighed into the debate around artists keeping their new albums off streaming services like Spotify. In an interview for Topspin CEO Ian […]
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EMI opens up its music to app developers with The Echo Nest
EMI’s future may be up in the air as its owner Citigroup decides whether to break up and sell the business, but the company is still innovating. It has just […]
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Mog trumpets 264% user-boost after Facebook integration
US streaming music service Mog has been boasting about its growth following its integration of Facebook’s new open graph features. The company says its monthly average users topped 160,000 in October, up 264% month-on-month thanks to switching on Facebook sharing at the end of September, when it also launched a free version of its service.