Paul McCartney is not a poor man, by any stretch of the imagination. He is worth around £800million and that isn’t undeserved. Sting is worth nearly £300million. Stevie Nicks, some…
Despite everything, I somehow remain a bit of a fan of Soundcloud. In between the endless advertising on the site, the spam and sifting through all the rubbish to find…
When you’re browsing on the likes of Traxsource, Beatport and whatever, you can browse by record label. So if you like the output of a particular label, it’s easier to…
Algorithms are everywhere these days. In some ways, they’ve always been in our lives, but the internet age has brought them to the forefront in a way we were never…
Spotify are apparently “experimenting” with the idea of raising their prices for their British customers. At the risk of upsetting someone at the company, I have to ask what drugs…
Streaming services for DJs are one of those things that seem to make the older heads foam at the mouth. They think the idea is absurd and is somehow an…
I wanted to keep a much closer eye on the work of this parliamentary committee than I’ve ended up being able to do. No, I never thought I’d write such…
Take a look at the following message. Sounds shocking, right? It’s a message that a distributor has been sending around for the past few weeks. Spotify took a big chunk…
I see that Daniel “Mr Burns” Ek has told us Spotify is hemorrhaging money. Weirdly, no one is too bothered about this. Online companies often seem to think that they’re…
The news this week that Gary Numan recently received a royalty statement for £37 for over 1 million streams raised a few eyebrows. How did he receive so little money,…
