Beats v. Spotify
As of January 21st Spotify now has a legitimate contender in the music streaming market, as Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine’s Beats Music steps into the ring. It is the culmination of eighteen months of...
View ArticleMusic in the Twilight Zone
On March 25th, 2014 Facebook made news again. Following the nineteen billion dollar purchase of high tech startup WhatsApp in February, Chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced it was buying virtual...
View ArticleBABA & Music
On September 19th, the Alibaba Group had its Initial Public Offering, the largest in history, on the New York Stock Exchange. Alibaba quickly became the world’s ninth most valuable tech firm. The $21.7...
View ArticleHi Fi Streams
Jay-Z has just launched a successful bid of $56 million to acquire Aspiro, a Swedish streaming company belonging to the larger Norwegian media conglomerate Schibsted. Its shareholders have voted and...
View ArticleApple Music’s Debut
Apple revolutionized the music industry with the launch of the iPod and iTunes in 2003, when it became the first company to monetize music successfully for the labels after Napster’s underhanded...
View ArticleA Fair Music Report
The logistics of correctly attributing the money earned from the sale and performance of recorded music has always been a daunting task. This is a global commodity that comes bundled with intellectual...
View ArticleCrowdfunding Gives Fans Shares
More than three and a half years after the JOBS Act’s passage, the Securities and Exchange Commission has released its rules for the critical Title III. The regulations won’t be fully into effect for...
View ArticleThe Billboard Power 100
One could do worse than write a history of the business from the pages of Billboard’s Power 100 rankings. This year the venerable music industry weekly has added thirty-nine new executives to its list,...
View ArticleThe Non-Profit Dance
Coverage of music industry news tends to follow, as this Journal does, the for profit sector. Corporate market leaders, like Apple, Spotify, and Live Nation, get special coverage on a regular basis....
View ArticleBerklee’s Open Music Initiative
In early June Berklee announced the beginning of the Open Music Initiative (OMI), a collaboration between the Berklee Institute of Creative Entrepreneurship, the M.I.T. Media Lab, and globally renowned...
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