Technical skills: Tom Allen is CTO at Downtown Music, where he oversees the company’s deployment of technology and how it works with external products and services. Music companies’ relationship with […]
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Partner at Fox Rothschild, Cynthia Katz: “Any and all revenue streams related to music have turned into an asset class”
October 2025: Cynthia Katz, partner at Fox Rothschild. Acquisition position: Cynthia Katz is a partner at major US law firm Fox Rothschild where she specialises in mergers and acquisitions, as […]
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Key Production founder and CEO, Karen Emanuel: “I’ve always found it really odd that people don’t value their staff”
September 2025: Karen Emanuel, CEO and founder of Key Production. Trust issues: Karen Emanuel set up Key Production in 1990 and it has weathered the storms of the assorted format […]
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Bandcamp artist and label relations lead, Aly Gillani: “If we don’t all buy each other’s records, the whole thing falls apart”
August 2025: Aly Gillani, artist and label relations lead at Bandcamp. He talks about why downloads are still a lifeline for many artists, how paying to own music has become […]
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Deezer CEO, Alexis Lanternier: “More customisation, more control and more connections”
July 2025: Alexis Lanternier, CEO of Deezer. Deezer dichotomies: Alexis Lanternier became CEO of music streaming service Deezer in July 2024 with an agenda to “accelerate the company’s future development […]
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CEO of Dynamite Songs, Alan Wallis: “Catalogues selling for 25x? That’s gone”
June 2025: Alan Wallis, CEO of Dynamite Songs. The price of rights: blockbuster catalogue sales became a core characteristic of the rights business half a decade ago where some of […]
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President and CEO of A2IM, Richard Burgess: “The majors are screwing themselves for the future if the independent sector is not thriving”
May 2025: Richard Burgess, president and CEO of A2IM. Independent dependency: with a background in electronic music (he was a member of Landscape), music production, artist management, music technology and […]
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President of CD Baby, Molly Neuman: “There is a narrowing of success where there should be a big pool of possibility”
April 2025: Molly Neuman, president of CD Baby. Creation degeneration: musicians can theoretically reach the entire world, but making their streaming and live income add up and work symbiotically has […]
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Author and journalist, Liz Pelly: “Spotify is not the music business – it’s the technology industry”
March 2025: Liz Pelly, author of Mood Machine: The Rise Of Spotify & The Costs Of The Perfect Playlist. The Spotify showdown: as the financial centre of gravity for much […]
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Sacem CEO, Cécile Rap-Veber: “DSPs shouldn’t take more value from streaming than creators”
February 2025: Cécile Rap-Veber, CEO of SACEM. Journey to the centric of the worth: artist-centric licensing debates have tended to be about their impact on recording artists, but there is […]
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Warner Music UK COO, Isabel Garvey: “We will tolerate the red for a long time”
January 2025: Isabel Garvey, COO of Warner Music UK. The success exposition: in the age of LPs and CDs, that mystical era from the closing century of the previous millennium, […]
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Spotify VP of markets & subscriptions, Gustav Gyllenhammar: “What would it take to build a service that is loved by a billion subscribers globally?”
December 2024: Gustav Gyllenhammar, VP of markets & subscriptions at Spotify. The subscription prescription: Spotify has just hit another landmark, topping a quarter of a billion subscribers. With growing competition […]
