Streaming is 75% of All Music Revenue

  • Troubling new numbers that indicate a consumer preference for streaming music and a decline in radio as a source of music.
  • Metric based conclusions that radio is morphing into a new role in exposing music to audiences.
  • How record labels now fear losing control of how their music gets played on voice activated smart speakers.
  • Where does all of this leave SiriusXM that has just tendered a $3.5 billion offer to buy all of pioneer streaming site Pandora.
  • Streaming nightmare for record labels:  How Spotify threatens to disrupt music distribution.

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