The Verge - August 26, 2016 Spotify reportedly burying tracks from artists who give exclusives to competition. Billboard - August 25, 2016 Universal Music's streaming revenues 'more than offset' download and physical declines. Bloomberg - August 22, 2016 Apple weighs iPhone video editing app in renewed pushing on social. recode - August 23, 2016 Facebook is testing autoplaying videos with the sound already on. Music Industry Blog - August 25, 2016 What Frank Ocean's bombastic

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Many of the complaints about payment for music streaming come from artists who signed contracts with record labels. While their public complaints are readily available online and in the media, their recording contracts are not. Did they take a six or seven figure advance that still hasn’t recouped? Did they sign away their rights for digital revenue with their label? Is their label making legal claims on digital revenue that is not included

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 At the crux of the anti-streaming argument is that certain people or companies are getting rich on the backs of under-compensated artists. This narrative frequently goes that technology companies (pure streaming services or tech companies that use music as a loss leader for hardware or advertising), their CEOs, and their investors are getting wealthy while artists are losing revenue. We never hear a comparison between the compensation of major labe