Music Business News: Denmark News Mdundo launches strategic review that ‘could lead to change in ownership, merger, strategic investor or other consolidation’ Africa-focused music streaming service has launched a strategic review as it grapples with what it calls ‘persistent billing challenges’ News Streaming service Mdundo reports 45% surge in subscription revenue as it sets sights on users outside Africa The company now counts 38.8 million monthly active users, up by 26% over the past year News Court increases prison sentence for Danish man convicted of streaming fraud The Eastern Jutland resident was convicted for artificially inflating stream counts on 689 tracks News Africa-focused streaming service Mdundo hits 37.8m monthly active users, as paid subscription revenue jumps 112% in local currency terms The company reported a revenue decline in fiscal 2023/24, amid weakness in African currencies News Joakim Johansson promoted to President, Nordics at Universal Music Central Europe UMG credits Johansson with Universal Music Sweden's reclamation of its position as market leader in the country Analysis News Three quarters of all royalties generated by UK artists on Spotify in 2023 came from listeners outside of the UK Spotify has recently broken out streaming royalty data for a bunch of individual markets in Europe News Streaming fraud leads to prison sentence for Danish man in case called ‘historic’ by artists’ groups Streaming fraud and manipulated audio are two of the biggest headaches in music today, and a criminal case shows how the two go hand in hand Analysis Big European countries are the winners in the latest music ‘glocalisation’ trends Will Page updates the data surrounding how local music artists are streaming in their home territories1 2 … 6 Next
News Mdundo launches strategic review that ‘could lead to change in ownership, merger, strategic investor or other consolidation’ Africa-focused music streaming service has launched a strategic review as it grapples with what it calls ‘persistent billing challenges’
News Streaming service Mdundo reports 45% surge in subscription revenue as it sets sights on users outside Africa The company now counts 38.8 million monthly active users, up by 26% over the past year
News Court increases prison sentence for Danish man convicted of streaming fraud The Eastern Jutland resident was convicted for artificially inflating stream counts on 689 tracks
News Africa-focused streaming service Mdundo hits 37.8m monthly active users, as paid subscription revenue jumps 112% in local currency terms The company reported a revenue decline in fiscal 2023/24, amid weakness in African currencies
News Joakim Johansson promoted to President, Nordics at Universal Music Central Europe UMG credits Johansson with Universal Music Sweden's reclamation of its position as market leader in the country
Analysis News Three quarters of all royalties generated by UK artists on Spotify in 2023 came from listeners outside of the UK Spotify has recently broken out streaming royalty data for a bunch of individual markets in Europe
News Streaming fraud leads to prison sentence for Danish man in case called ‘historic’ by artists’ groups Streaming fraud and manipulated audio are two of the biggest headaches in music today, and a criminal case shows how the two go hand in hand
Analysis Big European countries are the winners in the latest music ‘glocalisation’ trends Will Page updates the data surrounding how local music artists are streaming in their home territories
