REWIND: New music industry’s last week in review

Last week was a busy week by any definition, and the music industry was no exception. CD Baby and Downtown Music merged operations, Spotify changed how it allocates royalties and more.

• The Great Streaming Purge begins! Deezer tosses 26M ‘useless’ tracks
• Infamous Record Store Crawl returns for a 7-City Comeback Tour
• CD Baby operations have been merged with Downtown Music
• Lessons from $300M sale of the KISS brand, catalog: ‘This is the future, and the rules are being written now.’
• Spotify claims rules now in effect will shift $1B to ‘Working Artists’
• Lessons from $300M sale of the KISS brand, catalog: ‘This is the future, and the rules are being written now.’