Music consumption today is borderless, but the systems that manage it have historically been national. Collective management organisations are undergoing their most significant transformation in decades. On one hand, they […]
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The Foundation of Trust: Why Royalty Infrastructure is the Key to Artist Retention in 2026
Artists and rightsholders have unprecedented leverage over where to house their catalogs. Legacy brand prestige is no longer enough to retain them; instead, your artist network’s loyalty depends heavily on […]
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The 2025 Royalty Numbers are in: Loud & Clear Updated with new Data & Takeaways
Artists deserve transparency about how music streaming works. That’s why we launched Loud & Clear in 2021 — to share detailed data on Spotify’s royalty payments, break down how money […]
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Music Ally Insight Report :: The State of Music Streaming 2026
Welcome to our first Insight Report of 2026, which looks at the music streaming ecosystem. And the topic that dominates this year’s issue is, of course AI. But fret not: this […]
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The Open Innovation CMO: Sacem Lab, New Tech, and Creator Tools – with Julien Lefebvre, Head of Innovation and SACEM Lab
Collective management is no longer just about collecting royalties; it’s about innovating infrastructure and offering direct services. In the second in a special series of Music Ally Focus we were […]
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Millions of micro-royalties in hundreds of countries: Tipalti talks artist payouts in 2026
In 2026, labels, artists, musicians and creators are all working differently: generating millions of micro-royalties every month across global campaigns that involve multiple of partners across dozens of countries. Getting […]
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Music Ally Insight Report :: The State of Music Streaming 2025
Welcome to our Spring 2025 Insight report, which analyses the music streaming ecosystem. The last 12 months have been both breathless and contrary for the DSPs that define the music […]
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Music Ally Insight Report :: The State of Music Streaming – March 2024
Welcome to our Spring 2024 quarterly report, which analyses the music streaming ecosystem.
Last year DSPs sought aggressive expansion into new territories, explored platform differentiation, and crept towards new forms of engagement with fans. They were rewarded with growing revenues and subscriber numbers – so is the full story simply a happy one of wealth and success, or are there still challenges ahead? The short answer is yes, and also yes – we take a close look at both aspects.
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MMF boss slams ‘laughably obtuse’ resistance to streaming reform
Yesterday was quite a day for Music Ally on social media: our piece exploring how streaming services can generate more royalties for artists was shared approvingly by both Daniel Ek and David […]
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The ‘unintended consequences’ of user-centric streaming payouts
Here’s the thing about the ‘user-centric’ model of music-streaming payouts: it’s nowhere near as simple as a lot of people think it is, on several levels. The idea of each […]
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Slipknot’s Corey Taylor criticises music-streaming payouts
Slipknot are back with a new album, a big tour and some nifty Facebook camera effects (as we reported yesterday). But the band’s Corey Taylor has also been having his […]
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Zoë Keating reveals her Spotify payouts for 2018
Canadian cellist and composer Zoe Keating has made a habit of publishing details of her income from digital-music services: for example in 2012, 2013 and 2015. Now she has shared some more data on […]