Economics of Streaming & the Rise of the Music Artists’ Rights and Compensation

October 2023Licensing Media

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As the big era of buying CDs and vinyl records has mostly passed, music streaming continues to hit the music industry by storm. It is a market estimated at $153 Billion [1] with no signs of saturation. Nearly 2 billion music discoveries happen on Spotify every day. Headlines continue to sweep across the news media and this month the FT reports [2] “Universal music strikes deal to reshape streaming economics”. Broad industry alignment is required to re-monetise the music making lifecycle to benefit artists, limit non-artist noise, and ensure a better-quality user experience. This is particularly challenging where current fragmented and inconsistent regulations across different jurisdictions are struggling to keep pace with technology developments.

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