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By curvemusic Tagged as 2013, Business, Music, revenue, Spotify, streaming, Sweden

Business Matters: Streaming Drove 5% Recorded Music Growth In Sweden In 2013

There’s a good reason the global music industry pays attention to progress of new business models in a Scandinavian country with 9.5 million inhabitants. Sweden leads a handful of countries that have used the controversial streaming business model to reclaim big chunks of revenue lost in the post-Napster crunch of the 2000s. Thanks to high...

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By curvemusic Tagged as academic, economy, listening habits, Music, Norway, paper, research, streaming, streaming habits, Sweden

Obscured by Clouds: Streaming Music’s Effect on Norway

In the heated debate over streaming music’s sustainability, we seem to be gridlocked between claims of Spotify CEO Daniel Ek as the digital Messiah of the music industry, and artists’ outcry about exploitative payouts and a poor economy. It’s a debate in desperate need for data, transparency and models. It’s also a debate that needs...

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Business Matters: Streaming Drove 5% Recorded Music Growth In Sweden In 2013

Obscured by Clouds: Streaming Music’s Effect on Norway