The Price of Music

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• Massive Attack pull music from Spotify in protest; Ticketmaster sued by US government; Lizzo thinks that music videos are dead; More album-filing dilemmas; & people are listening to "My Humps" again? 24.09.2025
• *How many* AI-generated songs are uploaded to streaming each week? Why are Radiohead's fans angry about tickets? Why has Spotify given users lossless music for free? And much more... 17.09.2025
• Morrissey, Mazzy Star, and, erm, Bonnie Tyler: selling The Smiths’ songs, and the truth on music streaming royalties – do artists REALLY get such a bad deal? 10.09.2025
• The Weeknd’s big streaming milestone; ABBA Gold’s long chart run; Ready for friends to slide into your Spotify DMs?; Apple Music Radio expands; and Radiohead’s ‘Let Down’ gets a TikTok boost.Th 03.09.2025
• Coldplay's never-ending world tour keeps selling tickets; K-Pop Demon Hunters!; What on earth is "speculative ticketing"?; Bandcamp's $3.5m Friday; and has Steve actually “gone deaf for a living?” 20.08.2025
• Spotify's prices go up again; Which album's songs are in the wrong order?; Napster are being sued (is it 1999 again?); How easy is it to get a #1 album?; Steve's tip for getting into a sold-out gig 13.08.2025
• Beyoncé sells $400m+ of tickets; How much money is Oasis making from merch?; Spotify wants a billion subscribers; Hayley Williams surprise-releases songs; and Cardi B’s "full-on cheese experience"... 06.08.2025
• Steve and Stu answer your questions! Does the money from a stream get split evenly? Do bands get paid if a festival is cancelled? How do music-making AIs work? What is Spotify's Discovery Mode? 30.07.2025
• Will Drake face Kendrick in the witness box?; Los Campesinos! turn down a $60,000 ad deal – but why?; Steve takes a music superfan test; ... and what connects Taylor Swift & Five Finger Death Punch? 23.07.2025
• How do songwriters *really* earn money (and which bands moonlight as cover bands)?; Spotify under investigation; Netflix K-Pop animation artists; and Ozzy Osbourne's chimpanzee art 17.07.2025
• Oasis are back; The AI-generated band with a million listeners; Indies vs Universal Music spat gets grumpy; and who owns your songs if your label goes bust? 09.07.2025
• The Price of Music: your essential weekly music biz explainer – with Steve Lamacq and Stuart Dredge. (Trailer) 02.07.2025
• Spotify responds to Kate Nash’s comments on streaming royalties, Warner Music's superfan app 16.04.2025
• AI music startup Suno in hot water again, South African artists double their Spotify payouts 09.04.2025
• PPL posts highest ever annual revenues, Harry Kane invests in ticketing firm 02.04.2025
• US hits 100 million paid music subscriptions, Mariah Carey cleared of copyright infringement 26.03.2025
• SXSW finances analysed, the music economy of Gloucestershire 19.03.2025
• Interview: Youth Music CEO Matt Griffiths 12.03.2025
• Brit Awards artists speak out on grassroots venues, Snoop Dogg vs Spotify 05.03.2025
• Over 1,000 artists back 'silent' AI protest album, Casey Lowery making debut album through Kickstarter campaign 26.02.2025