Spotify's Billion Dollar Challenge

https://musicindustryblog.wordpress.com/2016/03/30/spotifys-billion-dollar-challenge/

Mark Mulligan makes the case for diversifying beyond the £9.99 a month model

https://musicindustryblog.wordpress.com/2016/03/23/what-other-technology-sector-thinks-that-it-has-arrived-at-its-destination/

how Spotify fuelled the rapid rise of Lukas Graham

http://musically.com/2016/03/23/7-years-streaming-lukas-graham/

good article by Mike Posner about his surprise hit

http://observer.com/2016/03/i-took-a-pill-in-ibiza-the-impossible-irony-of-my-latest-hit-song-is-hard-to-ignore/

Jamie Oborne interview

http://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/managers-should-make-decisions-on-reason-logic-and-knowing-their-artists/