Music industry
How did a Swedish saxophonist build Kobalt?
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- Tuesday, 03 September 2019
You may not have heard of Kobalt before, but you probably engage with the music it oversees every day, if not almost every hour.
La cassette audio entre en résistance
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- Tuesday, 03 September 2019
Quasiment disparu, ce format renaît chez de petites compagnies de production musicale. Même si les ventes restent plutôt confidentielles.
Elissa, Lebanese pop star, retires from 'mafia-like' music industry
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- Tuesday, 20 August 2019
Last year, Elissa also hinted at problems with her record label Rotana after it signed a deal with music streaming service Deezer. The deal saw her songs removed from a key Arab music streaming platform on which she had received hundreds of millions of plays.
Mexican music industry optimistic for more growth ahead
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- Tuesday, 20 August 2019
We were the 16th biggest market overall worldwide and as streaming adoption becomes more widespread I believe we’ll start to see Mexico push towards becoming a Top 10 market”.
The Rise, and Urbanization, of Big Music Festivals
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- Tuesday, 20 August 2019
Far from the hippie, peace-and-love archetype of Woodstock, today’s music-festival economy is a seriously big business.
Why, in a post-Tencent/Universal world, the three major music companies are worth nearly $90bn
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- Tuesday, 20 August 2019
The three major music companies are collectively worth more than $85 billion – and they have Tencent to thank.
Tool, AC/DC, Thom Yorke... Après des années de résistance, ils ont cédé au streaming
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- Monday, 19 August 2019
Le groupe de metal alternatif Tool vient enfin d’autoriser sa discographie à apparaître sur Deezer, Spotify, etc... Le streaming finira-t-il par avoir tous ses adversaires à l’usure ?
'We've all seen fantastic growth': Major labels on their vinyl ambitions
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- Tuesday, 06 August 2019
A look at the year’s Top 10 biggest-selling LPs for the year to date (see below) confirms the strength of the big labels’ vinyl operations.
Will Decentralization Help The Music Industry Discover Future Stars?
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- Tuesday, 06 August 2019
Irony can be cruel: A deaf Beethoven (who was perhaps angry at his disability) composed his greatest works while unable to listen to his own genius.
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