It shouldn’t be a surprise that Apple Music is raising the price of its subscriptions: the last time such a hike happened was four years ago in 2022.
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World Cup sent ‘Wonderwall’ to top of Spotify’s global chart
If you’d told us a year ago that Oasis’s 1995 song ‘Wonderwall’ would be topping Spotify’s ‘Top 50 – Global’ chart this summer, we’d have assumed the band were playing more concerts – perhaps in Mexico, Brazil and other big-volume streaming markets.
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Arson Theory talks heavy music: key challenges, fan culture, fairness and more
Just under a year ago, Cameron Almasi and Eddie Hermida co-founded Arson Theory. 300m streams later, the company is thriving.
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Milky Chance’s ‘Stolen Dance’ hits 2bn Spotify streams… 13 years after release
Milky Chance have just become the first German band to reach 2bn Spotify streams for a single track: ‘Stolen Dance’.
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World Cup spikes Shakira catalogue’s Spotify streams by 21.6%
Shakira is also doing well from the tournament, with her Burna Boy collaboration ‘Dai Dai’ another key track. It’s just her latest official World Cup tie-in following ‘Waka Waka’ in 2010 and ‘La La La’ in 2014.
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69% of Spotify streams in the US go to American artists
The US is the biggest recorded-music market in the world, and it’s one where domestic artists are taking a big share of streams according to Spotify. “69% of all streams […]
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Kalshi trades spark Spotify investigation into fake streams
Spotify has been forced to remove more than 500k streams of a song that topped its US chart after – in the Financial Times’ words – “discovering that the surge in streaming coincided with a jump in suspicious wagers on prediction market Kalshi”.
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Indian music platform Madverse unveils v2.0
Less than a month after announcing that it had closed its first institutional funding round—led by Kobalt founder and chairman Willard Ahdritz’s Ahdritz Capital—Indian music distribution, publishing and marketing company […]
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Scale Your Payouts, Match Your Ambition
The global music industry generates over $100B in annual revenue, driven by billions of royalty streams per day. Companies that win internationally don’t just sign the best A&R. They deploy […]
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David Rowntree responds to appeals ruling over PRS for Music class action
Musician David Rowntree has responded to the news of his lost appeal against a ruling concerning his class-action against PRS for Music.
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Misheard ‘Doobie Scoot Canoe’ lyric fuels a big TikTok surge
Excuse me while I kiss this guy… All the lonely Starbucks lovers… Parrot, parrot, parrot eyes… and now Doobie Scoot Canoe.
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Impala outlines new five-step plan for the digital-music market
European independent-music body Impala is never shy about putting forward its views on how the music industry should develop.
