Tag: spotify

  • Spotify and Meghan Trainor

    A week or so ago I popped in for a couple of sessions of an interesting music tech conference held in the BBC Radio Theatre called On the Beat. One of the sessions included a presentation by the always interesting Will Page, Director of Economics at Spotify. He was examining the interaction of Spotify, Shazam,…

  • How Much Does An Artist Earn From The Radio?

    There’s a widely linked article recently published in Wired about a track that has been played 168m times on Pandora earning its writer only $4,000. Now the first thing to note is that this number has been diluted a bit because there were three song writers and a publisher involved. The track overall paid $12,359.…