Sitemap - 2024 - Network Notes
🔵 Our top articles of 2024... and what happened after they were published
🔵 Still not done buying indies: Universal now hoovers up Downtown Music
🔵 Not a single UK act in Spotify's Top 10 of 2024. What gives?
🔵 Finding hope amid dark, uncertain times
🔵 Unpicking Universal's $500M lawsuit against Believe
🔵 The perilous state of indie's trade bodies
🔵 Value creation versus value extraction
🔵 Burner accounts, AI slop and a fork in the road moment for music marketing
🔵 What the music industry can learn from Nike's disastrous 2024
🔵 Finally the indies make a move back towards their own ecosystem
🔵 Indie labels put in more value to the music business than they take out - will that ever change?
🔵 Recognising the true value of indie labels
🔵 Could we maybe support Bandcamp more?
🔵 About that Universal Music share dive...
🔵The unfeasibly strange way things are pointed…
🔵Suno’s legal defence is woeful as the cracks start to show with GenAI
🔵From the vaults: This image illustrates perfectly how Spotify are getting it wrong
🔵 Entropy, Ted’s Doom Loop, and the problem with tech’s vision of curation
🔵 Can ORCA turn the tide for the indies?
🔵 The music industry's stasis problem
🔵 Does the success of niche festivals point to a return of the tribe?
🔵 If AI isn't the war, what is?
🔵 Everyone calm down! A pragmatic look at AI and music
🔵 Labels have forgotten how to do marketing
🔵 Why we need to think more broadly about the music ecosystem
🔵 From the vault: Music streaming services are gaslighting us
🔵 Big Tech's march on popular culture continues
🔵 The Great Escape's boycott problem is a symptom of wider arrogance in music
🔵 Why The Quietus may still have its finest hours ahead of it
🔵 D2C exclusives and the perils of ignoring the wider ecosystem
🔵 The majors, the indies... and the "mindies"?
🔵 The MMF/BPI disagreement only highlights the growing artist/label problem in music
🔵 United we stand, right Taylor? Taylor?!?
🔵 We are now in the "mega/microculture" era for music
🔵 The checkmate genius of Universal's "partnering and influence" strategy
🔵 The chaos of Spotify's flawed fraud policies
🔵 What might a TikTok ban mean for music marketing?
🔵 Revisiting Web3 in the music space in 2024
🔵 As Warner Music eyes up a Believe buy, all eyes must turn to trade bodies
🔵 Universal, TikTok, Apple, Spotify: the giants continue to battle
🔵 Warner Music's superfan app plans are likely flawed, but still to be applauded
🔵 Is it time Universal's market share was reviewed?
🔵 Music needs to Believe in its own value
🔵 Moving past the era of the walled garden
🔵 Is it weird that I don't want this Universal/TikTok spat to end?
🔵 The full extent of Universal's TikTok exit has been sorely underestimated
🔵 Could the biblical tech layoffs yield music's next solution?
🔵 SoundCloud's AI platform integrations provide a snapshot of what's to come
🔵 Could Apple Music go fan-centric with a 90/10 split to artists?
🔵 Yes, big changes are coming in the music industry. No, that doesn't make it a bad thing.
🔵 Amid selloffs and slowdowns, has the music industry peaked?
🔵 2024: more time creating music, less time listening to music
🔵 How Spotify's editorial stranglehold is coming unstuck
🔵 The Decline of Convenience Culture: A Forecast for 2024
🔵 Not a single new album graced the UK's Top 10 best-selling albums of 2023.