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Podcast: Music Ally Focus
Episode: Music Ally Focus #9: Spotify’s new "Loud & Clear" website promises ‘more clarity’ on streaming economy... "If the music industry is generating so much money, then where the hell is it going?"
Description: Music business news, analysed in brief by Music Ally's Stuart Dredge and Joe Sparrow. Spotify has just launched a new data-heavy website that explains how the company pays out royalties. Spotify isn’t explicitly describing it as a defence of music streaming, but given the recent upsurge in debate about musicians and streaming royalties – not to mention the UK’s parliamentary inquiry focusing on the streaming economy – the timing is no accident.  Â
Joe and Stu discuss what this new tranche of data might show – and try to answer Daniel Ek's rhetorical question: "Artists ask me all the time why they’r...