At the National Music Publishers’ Association (NMPA) annual meeting held in Alice Tulley Hall at New York’s Lincoln Center, the organization revealed the true cost of Spotify’s bundling scheme to publishers and songwriters. According to the NMPA, the bundling...
MBW Views is a series of op-eds from eminent music industry people… with something to say. That’s certainly the case with this latest edition, with one important difference: the person who has penned the below commentary has requested anonymity. We can tell...
In an all-too familiar situation, another artist has called out Spotify for piddly payments on a significant number of streams. This time, it’s Kate Nash, whose 2007 hit “Foundations” has over 100 million plays on Spotify. But Nash told BBC’s Woman’s Hour podcast that...
Spotify is a music and audio streaming platform co-founded by Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon in April 2006, and launched in October 2008. The platform operates a freemium structure, with both a paid-for subscription tier, and an ad-funded ‘free’ tier on its service....
I want to devote today’s letter to Spotify. You know, the music streaming service. Here is a chart: CEO Daniel Ek has now made more money than any musician in history. He has a net worth of $7.2 billion, and Taylor Swift, Jay-Z, Rihanna, and Bruce Springsteen put...
