This is a guest post by Dan Smith, General Manager of dance label Armada‘s US operations. Here, he writes about the impact creative music AI may have on the dance […]
Tag: Guest Columns
We occasionally publish posts which voice the opinions of guest authors, and advance specific perspectives on important issues. They are chosen at the Editorial team’s discretion and are not paid-for.
Independent artists deserve an equitable music ecosystem (Guest column)
This is a guest post by Ben Patterson, President, Artist & Label Services of Downtown Music Holdings. Here, he explains his perspective on the current state of the music industry […]
The Royalties Rumble – why the music rights boom is only beginning (guest column)
This is a guest post from Marzio Schena, co-founder and CEO of the music investment platform ANote Music. The music rights investment space is has, in the last few years, seen […]
Black music in the UK outside of London – guest column
Yaw Owusu is a Liverpool-based creative consultant who has worked with the likes of Google, Universal Records, and MTV. Owusu is a board member of the Liverpool City Region Music […]
Scaling and monetising communities – Guest column
This is a guest post from Tim Exile, Founder/CEO of Endlesss, the music making and collaboration platform. He writes about how building communities in the modern music business economy provides […]
Dispelling the utopian dream: the complex reality of music royalties (Guest column)
This is a guest column from Virginie Berger (below), a music and tech industry executive with over 20 years experience in rights management and digital transformation, and currently an international […]
Reclaiming Fame: as an artist, who’s your customer? (guest post)
This is a guest post from Piers Henwood, a GRAMMY and JUNO-nominated artist manager and musician. Here, he writes about the implications of the pressure placed on artists to succeed in a needy industry and an always-on culture – and he also picks apart our own expectations, as fans.
The localisation of Western pop music in China (guest column)
This is a guest post by XinYue, Editor of Kanjian Music, the Chinese music services company which is Music Ally’s partner for our Music Ally China arm. We asked XinYue […]
Debating the upsides of Universal Music Group’s recent AI attack (guest post)
This is a guest post by Markus Schwarzer, CEO of AI-powered music analysis and recommendation platform Cyanite. He addresses the concern that major labels and other large music companies have […]
Sink or swim: the urgent need for advanced tools to navigate the inundation of music content (guest column)
This guest post is written by Martin Nedved, co-founder of AIMS, a platform of AI-based products designed to search and tag catalogues of music, and which is a supporter of next week’s NEXT […]
In China, traditional opera and pop music is combining to find a new audience (guest column)
This is a guest post by XinYue, Editor of Kanjian Music, the Chinese music services company which is Music Ally’s partner for our Music Ally China arm. We asked XinYue […]
The first step to artist-centric streaming? Start listening to artists… (Guest column)
This is a guest column by David Martin, CEO of the Featured Artists Coalition – the UK trade body that represents the rights and interests of music artists. In this […]

