"Since the first edition was published in 2009, Patrik Wikström's book has become a go-to text for students and scholars. This thoroughly updated third edition provides an international overview of the music industry and its future prospects in the world of global entertainment."

Patrik Wikström and Robert DeFillippi bring together innovative, multidisclipinary perspectives on business innovation and disruption in the music industry. Authors from fields such as cultural studies, economics, management, media studies, musicology and human geography in North America,...

In cultural industries, the fear of large-country hegemon has been revived with the growth of subscription services (such as Netflix, Spotify or Apple Music) and the concentration of these markets. The aim of this paper is to provide evidence on this issue from music streaming consumption. Using...

We study the consequences of the implementation of a new payment system in the music streaming market. Instead of pooling all the subscription revenues and remunerating artists according to their number of streams, which is currently the norm, an alternative payment system adopts a user-centric...