Spotify surpassed 200 million monthly active users at the end of 2018, the 10-year-old streaming service announced during an interview at Las Vegas’s Consumer Electronics Show this week. In November, Spotify said in a financial disclosure to investors that it had 191 million monthly active users, 87 million of them …
Read More »America's Music Spending Is Expected To Rise Again This Year
Here’s music for the music business’s ears: U.S. consumers’ spending on audio entertainment is expected to rise significantly this year off of record spending in 2018. On-demand music services are expected to bring in 22 percent more revenue in 2019, rising to $7.7 billion, according to the Consumer Technology Association’s …
Read More »The Music Modernization Act's Biggest Battle Is Still Ahead
“Historic” was the adjective of choice for artists, songwriters and politicians alike when Congress passed the Music Modernization Act earlier this year. The overduebundle of reform — intended to update copyright rules for the streaming age and help music-makers take home more money — was an industry-wide effort, years in …
Read More »What's Drake Doing With All Those Films and TV Shows?
Drake‘s latest partnership isn’t with a sneaker brand or a streaming service, but a British film company. The Canadian rapper has joined hands with Altitude Film Distribution to acquire UK distribution rights to a drama about police brutality, according to a press release. Monsters and Men — which won the …
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