Music Ally

1 week ago | musically.com | Eamonn Forde

Eamonn Forde Meets… – each month, the veteran music business journalist speaks to a senior industry figure about the topics that really matter – and gets the opinions of the people who make the decisions that count. April 2025: Molly Neuman, president of CD Baby. Creation degeneration: musicians can theoretically reach the entire world, but making their streaming and live income add up and work symbiotically has never been more fraught.

1 week ago | musically.com | Eamonn Forde

Eamonn Forde Meets… – each month, the veteran music business journalist speaks to a senior industry figure about the topics that really matter – and gets the opinions of the people who make the decisions that count. May 2025: Richard Burgess, president and CEO of A2IM.

1 week ago | musically.com | Amit Gurbaxani

Indian streaming service Hungama Music is shutting down on 15 April. It announced the closure in a notification sent to its users. To be specific, the music section of Hungama Digital Media – recently rebranded as Hungama OTT – will cease operations on that date, when “downloaded music and library content will no longer be available.

2 weeks ago | musically.com | Joe Sparrow

In the latest episode of the Music Ally Focus podcast, we speak to beatBread CEO Peter Sinclair – on getting more options, insight and choices in music funding, and how independent artists, labels and songwriters are getting better deals while retaining ownership of their music using beatBread’s game changing deal comparison tool. beatbread provides funding for independent musicians and labels, and has been doing so for about five years now.

2 weeks ago | musically.com | Eamonn Forde

Ezra Collective released their third album – Dance, No One’s Watching – in late September 2024. Known primarily as a jazz act, the goal on the new album was to position them more squarely within dance music and dance culture.