Spotify and streaming

Thom Yorke Calls Spotify the "last fart of a decaying corpse"
 

This article contains a summary of the statistics of Spotify royalties and some useful summaries of the arguments, from both sides

Lesson 5 - Rough Trade/Soul Jazz: alternatives and independent labels

A quick tour of Rough Trade East

Soul Jazz Records, Soho

Krept & Konan sign to a major label 

Lesson 3 - Major labels and stars (Rihanna) and crowdfunding

MAJOR LABELS AND STARS

CROWDFUNDING

Our first example for crowdfunding was Amanda Palmer who has run the most successful crowdfunding page ever.



Her Kickstarter page is here for full details of the whole campaign: Kickstarter page

We also looked at Daylight Curfew's Run the Jewels campaign and the way in which they had diversified the basic product, giving consumers and fans more ways to support them: Run the Jewels packages. 
The most surprising and novel of these being the Meow the Jewels Kickstarter! 

Lesson 2: KayaKaya Records - Courier Magazine case study

BENCH SELF MADE - CHERISH KAYA from Bench. on Vimeo.

Bit Torrent and Piracy

Bit Torrent and Piracy

Megan Trainor - streaming link

Megan Trainor becomes first to enter charts on streaming alone.

U2 Songs of Innocence - A distribution case study

U2's new album given away free to iTunes users - biggest ever album launch.- BBC News story

Apple releases U2 removal tool - how to get rid of that pesky album!