Joe Parker
5 May 2026
Over the past few years, a curious and somewhat counterintuitive return to intentionality has begun to gather pace in the world of music consumption. MP3 players, once confined to the dustbin of history alongside such antiquities as the ste...
7 Apr 2026
I grew up in the era just before the ubiquity of smartphones and iPads. The CD still ruled my parents’ listening habits, and the idea of paying a subscription to stream music would have still been in its infancy. Consequently, my music disc...
3 Mar 2026
In 2025, Luminate’s Year-End Report documented that 106,000 tracks were delivered each day to DSPs. Over the span of one year, 38.6M new tracks became available to stream, representing an 18% catalogue growth from 2024. 88% of the available...
3 Feb 2026
In recent months and years, there have been a few moments where the operations of a social media platform have seemed to be hanging by a thread. In early 2025, the United States implemented a nationwide ban of TikTok. Whilst the severing of...
6 Jan 2026
Just as information cannot escape a black hole once it has entered, attention rarely escapes the scroll of a social media feed engineered to keep you in for as long as possible. Recently, whilst at my co-working space, I found myself overhe...
17 Nov 2025
For as long as it has existed, the music industry has always been in the profession of monetising access. Access to live music, access to the means to reproduce music on demand, access to a deeper connection to the artist. I call this lens ...
Getting your head around the complex nature of music royalties can be one of the most confusing aspects of launching a record label, but it is also one of the most important. Understanding who is owed what, when and why is essential for ful...