You got the memo on freemium, right? The data shows that most of one of the most successful apps now employ freemium upsell models, as well as Spotify realizes it’s toast without a serious, mobile freemium strategy. Which means that in the present iteration, Twitter #music could find it hard to produce stickiness around trending songs and good-looking tiles, even with its massive userbase. In 2013, that’s not enough, but yet, an excessive amount of to ask.

Just want I want. Advice from an beyond touch, older white man who runs an archaic organization which has little relevance in the present record companies. I’ve been inside the urban music industry (successfully) for 26 years and I’ve NEVER attended the Grammys or perhaps watched them on TV. I don’t care what he, or NARAS thinks. They are completely irrelevant in urban music regardless of whether their voting base has finally discovered black music.

‘Indian music lovers globally come in for the musical treat with over 160,000 songs in several languages from the T-Series catalog. I’m sure Spotify’s expertise earned in mature markets will likely be helpful for the Indian streaming industry and will pave the way for a paid ecosystem in the streaming business in India.’

What are you arguing for? That the company is overvalued? Or that songwriters needs to be pay more? Because you are conflating two completely separate issues. If the payout to songwriters climbs up, conceivably Westergren & other executives could take a salary cut & release funds to cover songwriters, but that s simply a drop in the bucket. As for money being produced by investors off of the speculative valuation on the business, that s not money which could ever possibly end up inside the hands of songwriters unless the songwriters are buying stock or are receiving paid in equity, & that s type of a unique notion. Isn t it?

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