UK Radio versus Spotify: A comparison of the value of spins versus streams.

In the context of a great deal of debate over the value of streams on new music services, Spotify in particular, I have been working on some back-of-the-napkin (or serviette) estimates of the value of…

Is a stream on Spotify (or any music service) really worth less than an iTunes sale?

On numerous occasions over the past few months we have heard news of labels and artists disappointed with the monies they are receiving from Spotify.

Making heads and tails of Tunecore artist sales

Using Tunecore’s recently released sales data, I tried to estimate the distribution of sales for this collection.

And, first off, many thanks to Jeff and Tunecore for releasing these data for the rest of us to investigate.

CISAC Global Copyright Summit

I recently gave a presentation as part of CISAC’s 2011 World Copyright Summit in Brussels. Many thanks to the Emmanuel Legrand and Marianne Rollet for their invitation to participate in and present at this event.