Yesterday was quite a day for Music Ally on social media: our piece exploring how streaming services can generate more royalties for artists was shared approvingly by both Daniel Ek and David […]
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The ‘unintended consequences’ of user-centric streaming payouts
Here’s the thing about the ‘user-centric’ model of music-streaming payouts: it’s nowhere near as simple as a lot of people think it is, on several levels. The idea of each […]
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Slipknot’s Corey Taylor criticises music-streaming payouts
Slipknot are back with a new album, a big tour and some nifty Facebook camera effects (as we reported yesterday). But the band’s Corey Taylor has also been having his […]
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Zoë Keating reveals her Spotify payouts for 2018
Canadian cellist and composer Zoe Keating has made a habit of publishing details of her income from digital-music services: for example in 2012, 2013 and 2015. Now she has shared some more data on […]
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Zoe Keating publishes her Spotify payouts again
“It’s been a while & a journalist asked, so I put my latest Spotify royalty payments online: Jan 2013 to May 2015,” tweeted musician Zoe Keating last night, with a […]
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Sony/ATV boss attacks ‘unacceptable’ Pandora and Spotify rates
Not the most surprising headline you’ll read this week, in fairness. Sony/ATV chairman and CEO Martin Bandier remains unimpressed with streaming payouts, with his latest criticism coming in an internal […]
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Music Ally Report : Platform power
In this week’s report: – Our lead asks whether the future of online music might rest in the hands of just five companies. Is Spotify about to become a ‘power platform’? – Our feature interview is with Jason Herskowitz, Tomahawk – one of the most interesting and disruptive new services in the market. Not heard […]
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More controversy surrounds Spotify and streaming payouts
Spotify has reacted angrily to an article on industry site Digital Music News with the headline ‘Study: Spotify is Detrimental to Music Purchasing’. The story was based on the recent report from NARM and NPD Group on digital music, and embeds a couple of slides focused on whether access to music makes people less likely to buy it.