Apple will always make sure that artist are paid #iTunes #AppleMusic — Eddy Cue (@cue) June 22, 2015 #AppleMusic will pay artist for streaming, even during customer’s free trial period — Eddy Cue (@cue) June 22, 2015 We hear you @taylorswift13 and indie artists. Love, Apple — Eddy Cue (@cue) June 22, 2015 I don’t […]

She’s right but she’s wrong. Apple should pay, but Swift acts like she’s above the rules, that she isn’t involved in music business shenanigans. In other words, while she’s at it why doesn’t she tackle breakage, free goods, radio shows, concert accounting… It’s a dirty business and Jimmy Iovine is too stupid to realize he’s […]

We don’t do this anymore in the music business. We don’t have any blockbuster acts reinventing themselves with every project, garnering stellar reviews and great customer word of mouth which ultimately rains coin and makes everybody happy. That’s right. After a detour into sequelmania, which generates cash but leaves everybody unsatisfied, Pixar dropped a blockbuster […]

He’s not quite the last of the rock stars, but he’s still a believer, he’s still pursuing his dream, when so many have been lost and forgotten. It was drizzling today in Paris. And when I sat by the fountain in the Tuileries I felt like I’d come full circle. I remember sitting in the […]