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Spotify may already be too big for the labels to stop it competing with them

Mark Mulligan

26 Oct 2018

Spotify’s Daniel Ek is betting big on developing a ‘two sided marketplace’ for music. With the company’s market cap on a downward trend despite strong growth metrics, Ek might find himself having to play up the disruption narrative more boldly and more quickly than he’d planned.

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Quick Take: Will stream dj-ing be the renaissance of SoundCloud?

Zach Fuller

19 Oct 2018

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After a difficult two yearsthat saw acquisitions fall through and a lack of meaningful uptake of its subscription service, SoundCloud have needed some positive news. Reveredwithin the creator community though still struggling to make a profit, SoundCloud CEO Kerry Trainorannounced today at Amsterdam...

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Spotify, DistroKid, and the two sided marketplace

Mark Mulligan

17 Oct 2018

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Spotify has taken a minority stake in DistroKid (per Music Business Worldwide ). In itself, it may be a slightly left field but relatively insignificant move, except that it is in fact one small but important step on a much bigger journey.

Looking for the music in Tencent Music

Mark Mulligan

5 Oct 2018

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The Tencent Music Entertainment (TME) F1 filing makes for highly interesting reading, but don’t expect copious amounts of data to give you an inside track in the way that Spotify’s F1 filing did. Instead TME’s F1 bears much closer resemblance to iQyi’s F1, namely a basic level of KPIs, lots ...

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Sirius XM acquires Pandora: Greater than the sum of their parts?

Zach Fuller

24 Sep 2018

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In the latest example of media acquisitions, though one less likely to flood the headlines as Comcast’s purchase of Sky, Sirius XM has announced it will be purchasing streaming service Pandora for $3.

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Will direct distribution result in the YouTube-ification of Spotify?

Zach Fuller

21 Sep 2018

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Spotify until now has been chiefly about, for want of a better word, the ‘professional musician’. True, many artists on the platform may not be making a living exclusively through their art, but many are still going through some form of label services and distribution deal.

Spotify’s Tencent risk

Mark Mulligan

21 Sep 2018

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NOTE: a previous version of this post referred to a non-compete clause with Spotify detailed in this SEC filing. I have been advised that the scope of this clause is narrower than I had originally interpreted.

Mid-year 2018 streaming market shares

Mark Mulligan

13 Sep 2018

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Music subscribers grew by 16% in the first half of 2018 to reach 229.5 million, up from 198.6 million at the end of 2017. Year-on-year the global subscriber base increased by 38%, adding 62.8 million subscribers.

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How streaming is changing the shape of music – Part I

Mark Mulligan

6 Sep 2018

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[This is the first of two thought pieces on how streaming is reshaping music from creation to consumption] The streaming era has arrived in the music business, but the music business has not yet fully arrived in the streaming era.