Music Streaming Favors Only Superstars
12. 4. 2025 online platforms music industry
Miloš Hroch spoke together with Petr Ostrouchov on the podcast Akcent on Czech Radio Vltava about the impact of music streaming on the music industry.
Saša Michailidis interviews Petr Ostrouchov from the music label Animal Music and Miloš Hroch from the Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University. Digital music listening – streaming – accounts for 64.5% of total revenues in the domestic music industry, according to last year’s data. How are musicians paid today, and how does streaming affect them? What does the growing popularity of streaming mean for music labels? You can listen to the podcast here.
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CIRG – the Cultural Industries Research Group focuses on research into cultural and media industries, particularly on current issues, challenges, and conflicts arising from tensions between intellectual property law, the business models of cultural industries, the digitalization and platformization of cultural sectors, and changing consumer habits. The group’s name is an acronym of its English title, Cultural Industries Research Group. CIRG is an informal association of experts from media studies, intellectual property law, media law, media ethics, cultural economics and cultural management, sociology of culture, and data analysis. The group operates on the basis of project-based funding through applied research projects (TAČR, NAKI, EEA and Norway Grants, OP JAK Intersectoral Cooperation), basic research projects (GAČR, ZIF Bielefeld, OP VVV Excellent Research, DFG), as well as contract research (State Cinematography Fund, Association of Audiovisual Producers).
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