Sitemap - 2025 - Network Notes
🔵 Playing with the Sleevenote digital audio player
🔵 Looking ahead to 2026 - some thoughts on how things will evolve
🔵 Analysing the "We Are Charlie Kirk" situation
Is AI turning music streaming services into comment sections? 💬
🔵 "Build a sustainable business and get value over to musicians and journalists"
🔵 Spotify Netherlands' Viral Chart is flooded with AI-generated, far-right racist tracks
🔵 Let's talk about Universal's deal with Udio
🔵 Further small signs of consumer fatigue with Spotify
🔵 Correctly predicting Spotify's AI move
🔵 How Suno poses as a third-party to try and hype its product
🔵 Let's talk about Universal's Fan Pass
🔵 Majors (and more): beware process-led optimisation
🔵 The erosion continues... but the fight back gains momentum
🔵 The irritating totality of talk around AI
🔵 So... when will change come?
🔵 Is a legendary, globally-known indie about to sell up to a major?
🔵 Want to take on the majors? Stop talking, start acting.
🔵 Universal/Downtown gets personal, but it all misses the point
When did making music get so lonely?
🔵 Immersive audio and re-establishing music's value
🔵 The exit plans for indie labels
🔵 Music needs to find its own path again
🔵 Reviewing the "time spent to money earned" ratio for artists
🔵 Exclusive: Universal tightens its grip around NTS Radio
🔵 Universal isn't winning. It is panicking.
🔵 Finding calm amid the AI insanity
🔵 AI is reinforcing the need for artist websites
🔵 Finding optimism among the next generation
🔵 We need subcultures and scenes back - both online and off
🔵 Spotify payouts: a snapshot of what Joe Public thinks
🔵 Unpicking Spotify's rumoured AI remixing feature
🔵 The desperate need for optimism and action in the music industry
🔵 Centralising data ownership for artists and stakeholders
🔵 Rejecting the race to the bottom
🔵 Banned from Spotify: the problem facing smaller artists
🔵 The Indie Worker Pass: A Proposal
🔵 Understanding The Music Fan in 2025
🔵 In the market share discussion, let's not forget the services companies