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The Inequalities of Digital Music Streaming


The Inequalities of Digital Music Streaming - The Regulatory Review

Despite some progress toward more equitable compensation for artists, experts have called for increased regulation in the digital streaming industry.

Streaming Music Industry Challenges | Miquido Blog

The market is becoming increasingly saturated and competitive. Both consumers and artists no longer have to choose the most well-known streaming ...

Full article: Mirroring the inequalities of mainstream music platforms

In the era of digital music streaming, understanding the monetization and popularity dynamics of online audio distribution platforms is crucial for both ...

A Pyramid of Inequality - by Damon Krukowski

The pyramid of music streaming just gets more and more exaggerated – last week, striking figures were released by entertainment data company ...

Addressing the Value Gap in the Age of Digital Music Streaming

This Note analyzes a global music industry problem known as the value gap. The value gap represents the disparity between the value that music-streaming ...

Summary of UN Report on Streaming

The document concludes that current streaming economics are destroying music worldwide, and points to the need for a new royalty system to pay artists more ...

Mirroring the inequalities of mainstream music platforms

In the era of digital music streaming, understanding the monetization and popularity dynamics of online audio distribution platforms is crucial for both ...

Streaming Saved Music. Artists Hate It. - The New York Times

Many musicians aren't sharing in streaming riches. Can digital music economics change to benefit everyone?

The Value Gap and Artist Compensation Disparities | by Paul G. Oliver

The advent of digital streaming platforms revolutionised the music industry, offering unparalleled access to an extensive catalog of songs ...

Disrupting the Disrupters: Algorithmic Inequality in Music Streaming

Record labels waged a digital battle against this phenomenon, famously causing the shutdown of the prominent illegal music downloading platform Napster ( ...

The Effects of Digital Music Streaming on the Revenue Models of ...

While the issues of music streaming affect all aspects of the music industry, including record labels and signed artists, this project will argue that the most ...

The reproduction of music industry inequalities in Spotify's ...

In this article, we argue that offline inequalities, such as core–periphery relations of the music industry, are reproduced by streaming platforms.

Music Streaming: How to Make It Sustainable for Music Creators

However, the rapid transformation of the industry has maintained old inequalities and created new challenges for composers, songwriters, and ...

Gender inequality in music mirrors the challenges of streaming… as ...

For much of 2024, music industry discourse centred around Spotify's content mix. The growing long-tail of artists and songs on the platform is ...

Addressing the Value Gap in the Age of Digital Music Streaming

The value gap represents the disparity between the value that music-streaming platforms extract from musical content and the revenue generated by those who ...

Digital Downloads vs. Streaming: How Royalties Differ Across ...

Each time a song is streamed, a royalty payment is generated. This amount is significantly smaller than the revenue from a digital download, ...

Music streaming services: understanding the drivers of customer ...

Our findings confirm that habit, performance expectancy and price value play the most important role in influencing the intention to use a paid music streaming ...

Streaming is making the music industry more unequal - The Verge

Jamieson Cox and Micah Singleton talk about how the rise of streaming music is making one of the music industry's big problems even bigger.

The Inaudible Impacts of Music Streaming Services

While music streaming provides a cheap yet reliable service to consumers, the major supplying workforce of musicians and artists do not receive ...

Cultural Divergence in popular music: the increasing diversity of ...

We analyze two large-scale datasets from Spotify, the most popular streaming platform at the moment, and iTunes, one of the pioneers in digital ...