August 2025: Aly Gillani, artist and label relations lead at Bandcamp. He talks about why downloads are still a lifeline for many artists, how paying to own music has become […]
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Behind The Campaign: Bon Iver – SABLE, fABLE
SABLE, fABLE, the fifth studio album by indie folk act Bon Iver (led by Justin Vernon), was released on 11 April and came almost six years after the i,i album. […]
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Deezer CEO, Alexis Lanternier: “More customisation, more control and more connections”
July 2025: Alexis Lanternier, CEO of Deezer. Deezer dichotomies: Alexis Lanternier became CEO of music streaming service Deezer in July 2024 with an agenda to “accelerate the company’s future development […]
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Behind The Campaign: PinkPantheress
British pop/garage act PinkPantheress released Fancy That, her second mixtape, on 9 May 2025. It followed her debut studio album, Heaven Knows, in 2023. Fancy That has nine tracks and […]
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CEO of Dynamite Songs, Alan Wallis: “Catalogues selling for 25x? That’s gone”
June 2025: Alan Wallis, CEO of Dynamite Songs. The price of rights: blockbuster catalogue sales became a core characteristic of the rights business half a decade ago where some of […]
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President and CEO of A2IM, Richard Burgess: “The majors are screwing themselves for the future if the independent sector is not thriving”
May 2025: Richard Burgess, president and CEO of A2IM. Independent dependency: with a background in electronic music (he was a member of Landscape), music production, artist management, music technology and […]
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Behind The Campaign: Black Country, New Road
On the release of their second album (Ants From Up There in 2022), experimental/alternative band Black Country, New Road announced that lead singer and guitarist Isaac Wood was leaving. The […]
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President of CD Baby, Molly Neuman: “There is a narrowing of success where there should be a big pool of possibility”
April 2025: Molly Neuman, president of CD Baby. Creation degeneration: musicians can theoretically reach the entire world, but making their streaming and live income add up and work symbiotically has […]
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Behind The Campaign: Ezra Collective
Ezra Collective released their third album – Dance, No One’s Watching – in late September 2024. Known primarily as a jazz act, the goal on the new album was to position […]
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Author and journalist, Liz Pelly: “Spotify is not the music business – it’s the technology industry”
March 2025: Liz Pelly, author of Mood Machine: The Rise Of Spotify & The Costs Of The Perfect Playlist. The Spotify showdown: as the financial centre of gravity for much […]
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Behind The Campaign: Rod Wave
US rapper Rod Wave released Last Lap, his sixth studio album in as many years, in October 2024. According to Wave, this album is the end of the first chapter […]
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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 […]
