So TechCrunch
posted
that Kobalt, a company who collects digital music publishing revenue for
artists has announced that Spotify revenue has overtaken iTunes revenue
by 13% in Europe. That's interesting, not surprising given the trends
but is missing answers to a few key questions:
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What are the overall revenues - does this represent an overall drop in
incomes with iTunes revenue dropping quicker than Spotify revenue
grows, or are artists incomes holding steady?
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How does the buy vs stream ratio look across the spectrum of music
popularity? Pop vs long tail?
TC of course failed to link to Kobalt's blog post.
Here it is. It doesn't contain much more content.