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Monday 10.17.16 Music Business News From Around The Web Does free streaming really reduce piracy when traffic on PBay and YouTube-MP3 surpasses Spotify and Pandora? Updated continuously under our More News tab

Bruce Houghton on 10/17/2016 in Music Business | Permalink | Comments (0)

Tags: Apple Inc., Apple Music, Free streaming, Freemium, iTunes, Pandora Radio, Spotify, Streaming media, Subscription business model, YouTube

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Amazon Will Launch New Music Streaming Service Next Month [Report]

Amazon is so close to finishing its deal with the major labels that it will launch a competitor to Spotify and Apple Music in September, sources tell the Financial Times.. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 08/29/2016 in Music Business | Permalink | Comments (0)

Tags: Africa, Alan Cross, Commentary (magazine), European Exchange Rate Mechanism, European Union, Financial Times, Free streaming, Freemium, record label, The Banker

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NPR Exits Anti-Artist Mic Coalition

Last month, after Amazon exited the Google and Pandora backed anti-artist MIC Coalition, pro-artist advocates set their sights on NPR. Why NPR "who artists have worked so closely with over. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 07/14/2015 in Music Business | Permalink | Comments (0)

Tags: Adware, Airplay, Apple Inc., Free streaming, Google, Google Play, Internet radio, NPR, Songza, Streaming media

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Universal Spent $12M To Win “Pyrrhic Victory” Against Michael Robertson, MP3tunes

Universal Music has been chasing MP3tunes since 2009. Whatever the merits of labels taking legal action music tech companies from Napster to Grooveshark, the cost of these lawsuits are indirectly. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 04/06/2015 in Major Labels | Permalink | Comments (0)

Tags: Bjørn Lynne, Canal+, Free streaming, Freemium, Gaye family, record label, Spotify, Universal Music Group, Vivendi, YouTube

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