The key to understanding the music streaming economy is the business model of the music streaming services, which has emerged in the...

On 3 April 2018, Spotify went public on Wall Street in New York. However, the path to this IPO was anything but straightforward and was...

Spotify is by far the world’s leading music streaming service. This success was anything but pre-programmed, and aside from the marketing...

This blog post takes a closer look at the music streaming services that have been forced to shut down and disappeared from the market. It...

German music streaming service SoundCloud was originally conceived not as a streaming service but as a social media platform for...

Tidal, originally founded in Norway as WiMP, is a good example of a high-fidelity music streaming service that has struggled economically...

As we have seen, Spotify was not the pioneer of music streaming. Other services, such as RealNetworks/Rhapsody or MOG, had been around...

The international music streaming market is firmly in the hands of technology companies, and it is telling that Spotify also defines...