Op-Ed: Don’t Get Confused By The News – By Bob Lefsetz

Spotify’s in trouble, its licenses are going to expire!

Nicki Minaj produced a tweetstorm about Spotify, claiming the company put the kibosh on her album!

Music distribution is mature. The news outlets don’t want this to be so, so they keep printing headlines that make you think otherwise. But the truth is the music business was in turmoil for fifteen years, but now it’s not. Now it’s a matter of how great your music is and whether you can develop a fanbase, the rest is just a sideshow.