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How can you compete with Big Tech and their monopolistic market power, platform effects and army of highly paid developers? hCaptcha shows that with privacy, higher ethical standards and a different business model it is possible.

Katarzia’s latest album tour was postponed indefinitely because of Covid-19. She signs in Slovak, and would like to stick around – as soon as the pandemic is over, she would like to return to the clubs and play for her fans.

People usually discover new music in their young age as they are forming their own personal identity with their peer group. The size of the music discovery population has changed dramatically across Europe in the last 30 years. We placed the data in the Demo Music Observatory.

There’s Serbia, too, with towns like Senta, Subotica and Novi Sad, where the local audience is the most grateful. As we sing in Hungarian, we try to target regions where our songs can be understood.

You need to have 1000x more followers to double the routes leading to your artist profile and recordings with the current algorithms. We need new recommendation engines to dig out the local artists buried under a pile of international hits.

The Feasibility Study on the European Music Observatory was published on 13 November. We created a Demo Music Observatory to provide a practical guidance on the decisions facing the European stakeholders, and to answer the questions that were left open in the Feasibility Study — particularly on data quality, time to build, and costs.

Next week we will introduce a music industry report from Wales. The country is a sub-national part of the United Kingdom from a statistical point view. Making evidence-based policy or market analysis is as challenging as in emerging markets where government statistical services are weak. And the parallels do not stop here.

I’d like to tour internationally with my music. But who doesn’t? I find it very difficult to pinpoint one exact place to start building a fan base.

Our Demo Music Observatory started the release of the national markets shares on Spotify’s National Top 50 years with 15 months of history in a few select European countries. In some countries, the market share of locally produced music remains critically low, or decreasing, but there are notable exceptions. Getting on the top of the US market is becoming more difficult from the rest of the world.

In July 2020, Professor Paul Carr of University of South Wales was commissioned by the Welsh Parliament to create a report examining the music industries in Wales hit by Covid-19 in Wales. Many of his findings may be very interesting starting points for a discussion in other small nations.