Royalty Rumble at Spotify

Hello, it’s us.

Been awhile hasn’t it? We weren’t joking when we said “irregular.” We’ll be better, we promise.

So what’s been up at the hot corner of music and capital(ism) in the first month of the new year?

Oh just some casual royalty payout changes at Spotify, boardroom shakedowns at Hipgnosis and some, weird and disheartening structural changes and …