Tag: turkey

Warner Music Group’s latest partnership is with Doğan Group in Turkey: owner of the country’s biggest independent label, and also of online-video channel NetD. The deal will see Doğan Music Company (the label) distribute...

In 2018, Turkish recorded music association Mü-Yap expects digital music revenue in Turkey to grow by about 25%, while Metin Uzelli, a veteran of the Turkish music industry, predicts that the overall market will grow by...

Turkey may not be the fi rst market that springs to mind in the music business but it enjoyed the largest percentage increase in streaming revenue in all of Europe in 2017… and that’s demanding attention

Lead: Artificial intelligence is the next disruptive force to seriously hit the music business – but its disruption will be around music creation rather than distribution or pricing. There is already a huge panic about...

The latest chart of the most popular YouTube channels is out, and two of the top three are music-focused – but they don’t belong to individual artists. Bollywood music channel T-Series and Turkish channel netd müzik...

British singer-songwriter Paul Carrack has been a member of several bands, notably Mike & The Mechanics, but has been putting out solo albums since 1980. Soul Shadows is his eighteenth solo album and got to #25 on the UK...

Have the wheels come off YouTube star PewDiePie’s online audience? His channel is nowhere to be seen in the latest Top 100 rankings for October, although we can’t help but suspect an issue in the chart compilation rather...

The top stars of wrestling body the WWE have been body slammed by Turkish musicians in the latest YouTube chart. Tubefilter and OpenSlate’s rankings of the top channels by video views in September reveal Turkish channel...

Our cover feature focuses on lyric sites and lyric apps – looking at how publishers are trying to herd them down a licensed pathway and monetise them wherever possible. That said, the actual experience for users is, for...

YouTube has been blocked in Turkey for two months – one of several international websites to fall victim to a crackdown by the country’s government on free speech. Now, though, access to Google’s video site...

Turkish internet users aren't having a good month, thanks to their government's attempts at web censorship.