“At $45.5BM in 2023, Music Copyright Now Worth More Globally Than Cinema, New Report Finds”: https://t.ly/yDfV5 The devil is in the details. My inbox has been blowing up with the above story, it makes a good headline, but what you’ve got to know is… Recorded music revenues eclipsed those of the movies in the seventies. […]

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“Drake accuses Universal Music Group and Spotify of unfairly promoting Kendrick Lamar’s ‘Not Like Us’”: https://t.ly/wi2pY “Drake Files Second Action Against UMG, Alleging Defamation Over Kendrick Lamar’s ‘False’ Song”: https://t.ly/32_oO Who knows what the truth is. But one thing is for sure, the credibility of Universal and Spotify is in question. In a world where […]

Subject: RE: 74 Of ’74 For an interesting exercise, compare this 50-years-after-the-fact list with the Top Album list Rolling Stone actually issued in 1974. The original list had jazz or jazz-fusion albums in each of the top five spots. In this list, the top-rated jazz album is Miles Davis at 32 – and Miles wasn’t […]