Billboard Dance Power Players 2018

https://www.billboard.com/biz/articles/8258223/billboard-dance-power-players-2018-the-managers-live-leaders-tastemakers?curator=MusicREDEF

Spotify Saved Music. Can It Save Itself?

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-23/spotify-saved-music-can-it-save-itself?curator=MusicREDEF

Inside The Chainsmokers' Plan to Rethink the Album Cycle

https://www.billboard.com/articles/business/8257719/inside-the-chainsmokers-plan-rethink-album-cycle?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=BB%20MASTER%20Record%20Labels%20Update2&utm_term=biz_recordlabel

interview with Carl Hitchborn of High Time (The Hunna, Coasts)

https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/carl-hitchborn-i-realised-that-no-one-in-the-music-business-really-knew-what-they-were-doing/

smart speakers

http://musically.com/2018/03/21/smart-speakers-impact-music/

Inside the booming black market for Spotify playlists

https://www.dailydot.com/upstream/spotify-playlist-black-market/?curator=MusicREDEF

explanation of breakage in the streaming era

http://hitsdailydouble.com/news&id=310836

KOBALT INVESTS $150M IN INDEPENDENT ARTISTS TO CHALLENGE ‘STUPIDITY’ OF TRADITIONAL MAJOR LABEL DEALS

https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/kobalt-invests-150m-in-independent-artists-to-challenge-stupid-traditional-major-label-deals/?curator=MusicREDEF

interview with Frazer T Smith

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-43224339