how Years & Years made it big in America

https://lntv.com/en_us/article/how-years-years-big-in-america?curator=MusicREDEF

Spotify revenues

http://www.smh.com.au/business/media-and-marketing/spotify-looks-to-increase-advertising-revenue-streams-20151013-gk84yj.html

http://musically.com/2015/10/20/james-blunt-spotify-royalties/

http://thetrichordist.com/2015/10/20/spotify-has-apparently-failed-to-license-account-and-pay-on-more-than-150-cracker-and-camper-van-beethoven-songs/

Patrick Moxey interview with some thoughts on future of dance music

http://www.billboard.com/biz/articles/news/touring/6730787/ultra-music-founderpresident-patrick-moxey-on-edm-going-mainstream

Joanna Newsom on Spotify

http://pitchfork.com/news/61661-joanna-newsom-spotify-is-the-banana-of-the-music-industry-it-just-gives-off-a-fume/

here's how much it costs to buy 80,000 Soundcloud plays (and YouTube and Instagram)

http://pigeonsandplanes.com/2015/10/buying-soundcloud-plays/

Peter Oxendale - musicologist - on life after the Blurred Lines verdict

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/34389573/music-industry-paranoid-after-pharrell-williams-robin-thicke-blurred-lines-case

the story of Terrence Trent D'Arby

http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk/2015/10/i-was-killed-when-i-was-27-curious-afterlife-terence-trent-d-arby