Those will likely be easier to obtain if it can prove out that it was able to boost music sales, merchandise or concert tickets by promoting Universal Music Group's library.
The plan is to boost music video ad revenues by hosting them in a more brand-friendly environment than YouTube currently provides; YouTube would also provide tech and ad sales support, helping to get UMGs content distributed on other sites as well.
Ninesling tells me that with smartphones boosting mobile music consumption, the headphone market has exploded to an $8 billion a year business.
(Activision might raid Universal's back catalogue for material for its music games, for example, which might in turn boost music sales).
CD sales are at record highs cassette recorders, minidiscs, CD-writers and MP3 notwithstanding.It is easy to imagine that a subscription-based "universal jukebox", which Napster is now trying to establish, could also boost overall music sales.
But along with fellow Brit act Adele and the continuing growth of digital sales, the boy band's worldwide success helped boost global music revenues for the first time in 13 years in 2012.
Korea's top artists are already on Kakao, so the synergy could act much like Line and its Line music service, boosting both the chat and music services by enabling users to get closer interaction with their favorite artists via Kakao.
The firm has been able to control the price of music, boosting sales of iPods but not bringing the record companies a great deal of money.
If Messenger can become a richer social layer connecting Spotify users, it could inspire deep conversations about music, boosting its engagement.
Energized by the Women's March on Washington, he sent an e-mail to musical friends, calling for an ad-hoc band to show up at marches, rallies, and protests to provide people with "LIVE, morale-boosting music".
It was perhaps not so much a movement as a simultaneous emergence of fairly like minds, given shape and direction by the determined boosting of the English music weekly the New Musical Express (NME which referred to Paul Weller of the Jam as "the Modfather of Britpop".
