It’s just over two years since Spotify introduced changes to its payouts, including only paying recorded-music royalties for tracks that have been streamed at least 1,000 times in the last […]
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South-East European artists face live and streaming barriers
The South-East Europe (SEE) region is exciting both creatively and commercially, covering more than 55 million people across countries including Romania, Bulgaria, Greece, Croatia, Slovenia, Serbia and Albania. But according to […]
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Country Profile – Bulgaria 2024
Bulgaria was one of the fastest growing music markets in the world in 2022, in percentage terms. But it has a lot of catching up to do.
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Reports: Spotify to raise the price of individual subscriptions in US
In the US, the price of an individual subscription will increase, Billboard reports, from $9.99 to $10.99. This is the first price rise for an individual premium account in the US, having stayed at the $9.99 point since Spotify launched there in 2011.
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Spotify ‘Bulgarian’ scam fuels call from MMF for user-centric licensing debate
The ‘Bulgarian scam’ on Spotify, revealed earlier this week by MBW, allegedly involved an entity uploading a collection of sub one-minute tracks to Spotify; then arranging them into a few playlists.
Devices tied to Premium Spotify accounts were then used to stream those playlists round the clock: even at a monthly cost of nearly $12k for 1,200 accounts, the potential revenues paid out from those streams could be $288k or even more.
Anyway, music managers body the MMF thinks the revelation of the scam should reignite discussion within the music industry about a switch to ‘user-centric’ licensing for streaming services.
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RealNetworks has teamed up with Bulgarian mobile operator Mobiltel,
RealNetworks has teamed up with Bulgarian mobile operator Mobiltel, to bring the former’s Music-on-Demand service to the country. 5 million subscribers in Bulgaria will be granted access to RealNetworks ‘all-you-can-eat’ […]
