Yesterday, David Lowery’s The Trichordist published an article by singer/songwriter Blake Morgan—one which the Huffington Post apparently refused to run. In the piece, Morgan describes meeting with Spotify executives to whom he tried to explain that their product isn’t Spotify itself but is in fact music. “And by the way,” Morgan said, “stop calling your subscribers ‘users.’ They’re not ‘users,’ ...
According to Peter Kafka writing for re/code, the fact that Adele has broken all-time records with sales of her new album “25” while simultaneously rejecting streaming services is too much of an oddity to provide any guidance for music professionals vis-a-vis their business models. Kafka writes the following: “If you are looking for big lessons in Adele’s success selling more ...
Taylor Swift’s new album 1989 is the first and only to go platinum this year. And the year is just about over. At the same time, Swift is making headlines because her label Big Machine (a label she and her family own) has pulled all of her albums from Spotify and other streaming services. As David Lowery’s artists rights blog ...
