When Metallica books a tour, the band doesn’t just prepare to play its biggest hits in the biggest cities — it uses granular Spotify data to tease out the specific preferences of its city-specific fanbases, tailoring set lists to location, Spotify’s CEO Daniel Ek revealed on an earnings call last …
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“[When] I started Spotify … I was single and 23 and spraying champagne on people in bars in downtown Stockholm … I used to think that people who went and picked up their kids from day care were losers and were checking out too early. That’s the honest truth.” Daniel …
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Music copyright is shaping up to be a hot topic this year, despite being both historically overlooked and historically extremely confusing. While the actual workings of royalties and licensing policies are still asconvoluted as ever, attention on them — and their dysfunctions — has ramped up thanks to the Music …
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YouTube users could soon find much less content available on the video-streaming platform once known for hosting anything and everything. A controversial copyrightreform proposal in Europe — a bundle of legislation aimed at updating copyright law for the digital age called the Copyright Directive — was just approved by the …
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Michael Jackson had to give up a little bit of space on his throne this week, when Post Malone broke a record that The King of Pop held for 34 years. The 23-year-old rapper whose name has crept slowly and then very rapidly into the mainstream in recent years just …
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The buzziest word in music this year is the one that used to be the most utterly boring. Copyright — ownership of songs and albums as creative works — is a riotous knot of rules and processes in the music industry, with the players much more numerous and entangled than …
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Lyor Cohen reinvented the music business – and then he did it again, and again. But the industry veteran, who built Def Jam, reinvigorated Warner and set new rules for the record industry with 360 deals and other inventions, now faces his toughest task yet as global music head of …
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Katie Armiger has been one of few artists to speak openly about her experiences with sexual harassment and assault in the country music industry and Monday at a press conference in Nashville for HB 1984/SB 2130 – new legislation designed to offer increased protections for victims who don’t fall under …
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