“One of the things that happens when you have venture capital flowing into the system is that people staff up. But we’ve never taken outside money. It keeps us connected […]
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Sacem CEO, Cécile Rap-Veber: “DSPs shouldn’t take more value from streaming than creators”
February 2025: Cécile Rap-Veber, CEO of SACEM. Journey to the centric of the worth: artist-centric licensing debates have tended to be about their impact on recording artists, but there is […]
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Johnny Marr talks mentorship, musicians and venue closures
It’s perhaps a little frustrating being Johnny Marr: despite being widely recognised as one of the greatest British songwriters, the legacy of his earliest work as guitarist and songwriter in […]
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Transgressive at 20: ‘Use your ears to hear the good music and back that’
“Long after the yoghurt has soured, the song is still brilliant! If you take one thing away from this interview today…” jokes Tim Dellow.
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Warner Music UK COO, Isabel Garvey: “We will tolerate the red for a long time”
January 2025: Isabel Garvey, COO of Warner Music UK. The success exposition: in the age of LPs and CDs, that mystical era from the closing century of the previous millennium, […]
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Team Talk: Audius on artists, money-making and industry control
Music Ally first wrote about Audius in 2018, when its $5.5m Series A funding round saw it described as ‘SoundCloud on the blockchain’.
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Spotify VP of markets & subscriptions, Gustav Gyllenhammar: “What would it take to build a service that is loved by a billion subscribers globally?”
December 2024: Gustav Gyllenhammar, VP of markets & subscriptions at Spotify. The subscription prescription: Spotify has just hit another landmark, topping a quarter of a billion subscribers. With growing competition […]
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Monstercat on games: ‘Indirect monetisation is often overlooked’
Gavin Johnson is head of gaming at independent electronic-music label Monstercat, which has been one of the most active and inventive music companies.
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Merlin CEO Jeremy Sirota: “Licensing has always been too restrictive”
Startups need to understand (and respect) music and music’s value more, but equally copyright owners need to stop putting unnecessary obstacles.
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Peermusic CEO Mary Megan Peer: “We’re seeing K-pop become part of the rubric of songs”
October 2024: Mary Megan Peer, CEO of Peermusic. K-pop ’n’ roll: the US and the UK provided the lingua franca of popular music for the entire twentieth century. They controlled […]
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Team Talk: Toolroom Records on branding, superfans and education
Toolroom Records famously got its name from an actual toolroom. DJ and house-music producer Mark Knight founded it in 2003.
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“Festival marketing was becoming a bit one-note. We wanted to get out into the fields…”
Social content strategists Something Something built up its profile by successfully running artists’ social media in ways that connected with Gen Z fans. But then came an opportunity to do […]
