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🔵 Rejecting the race to the bottom
Quitting Spotify and engaging with a more emotionally affecting approach to listening to music
Feb 7
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🔵 Banned from Spotify: the problem facing smaller artists
Unpicking the complex issue of fake streams and false claims
Feb 4
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January 2025
🔵 The Indie Worker Pass: A Proposal
I have an idea... and I'm curious if you feel it might work.
Jan 30
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🔵 Understanding The Music Fan in 2025
The full presentation I gave at Music Ally's Connected event this week
Jan 24
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🔵 In the market share discussion, let's not forget the services companies
Why the Universal/Downtown deal affects considerably more than just indie labels
Jan 16
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🔵 Universal/Downtown: a note from Martin Mills
The Beggars Group head dropped me a line with his thoughts, shared in full below
Jan 6
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December 2024
🔵 Our top articles of 2024... and what happened after they were published
Plus: some predictions for 2024
Dec 20, 2024
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🔵 Still not done buying indies: Universal now hoovers up Downtown Music
Another collection of indie stalwarts shifts across to the majors
Dec 17, 2024
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🔵 Not a single UK act in Spotify's Top 10 of 2024. What gives?
How UK music is losing a culture battle and what we can do about it.
Dec 11, 2024
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🔵 Music's Three Paths Forward
Unpicking Keith Jopling's vision for the music industry's future
Dec 9, 2024
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🔵 Finding hope amid dark, uncertain times
The state we are in, and the positive paths forward
Dec 3, 2024
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November 2024
🔵 Unpicking Universal's $500M lawsuit against Believe
Does it have a case, and is the wider rhetoric from Universal warranted?
Nov 7, 2024
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