A federal judge has dismissed the bundling-focused copyright lawsuit that the Mechanical Licensing Collective filed against Spotify. Photo Credit: MLC Looks like Spotify’s aggressive bundling strategy is here to stay: The streaming platform has resoundingly […]
Since early 2024, Spotify has been ramming nearly every subscriber into a cut-rate ‘bundled’ package — and boasting about the huge royalty savings while fighting publishers tooth-and-nail. Now, there’s serious pushback coming from Universal Music […]
The NMPA is wishing all (or at least most) ‘unbundled joy’ this holiday season. (Photo Credit: Digital Music News) Amid a high-stakes showdown over Spotify’s unilateral bundling reclassifications, the National Music Publishers’ Association (NMPA) is […]
Photo Credit: Daniel Ek by Stuart Isett / Fortune Brainstorm Tech / CC by 2.0 Spotify’s bundling pays off, but not for songwriters and publishers. The bundle move puts the company on course for its […]
Billboard announced Thursday that “limited combinations of merchandise and physical albums” will count toward the Billboard 200 chart, starting later this year. Dubbed “fan packs,” these combinations are limited to merch paired with the physical […]