The use of file-sharing technologies, so-called Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks, to copy music files has become common …

Streaming music services have exploded in popularity in the past few years, variously raising optimism and concern … about their impacts on recorded music revenue. On the one hand, streaming services allow sellers to engage in bundling with … interest in music not generating revenue through individual track sales - unpaid consumption and deadweight loss - into …

Interactive music streaming services have grown tremendously in recent years, raising questions about their effects on … digital music sales and piracy. While often overlooked in practice, theoretical considerations suggest that these effects may … unconstrained access to music, providing little incentives to acquire digital music through alternative channels of consumption. On …

Digitization has vastly increased the amount of new music produced and, because of streaming, has raised the number of … Spotify emerging as dominant major interactive music streaming platform, this paper explores the effect of Spotify's playlists … inclusion decisions on both the promotion of songs and the discovery of music by new artists. We employ four empirical …

There are numerous studies analyzing factors of success in media-broadcasted artistic contests, especially music ….e. "music quality"). In this paper, we approach this research gap by developing two novel concepts of music quality and by … employing unique measures during the empirical analysis of a popular German music television contest in order to analyze how …

This study examines the impact of Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court appointment on U.S. music consumption, specifically … in seemingly unrelated sectors like the music industry. It underscores the importance of adaptive strategies in digital …

During the last few decades, the internet and digital technology have fundamentally changed the global music industry …. As a consequence, new companies and novel business models have emerged. Spotify, one of the new players in the music … solutions for artists and music producers alike. This case study describes the development of the music industry before the …