The proportion of residents in the Nordic countries who pay for music streaming has gone up by four percentage points from 2020.

Nordic collective management organisations are deeply shocked by the Russian Federation’s ongoing war of aggression against the state of Ukraine.

The Polaris Hub is now moving into a new mature phase with focus on managing the ongoing business and further improving synergies followed by an ambition of onboarding new customers.

A new joint Polaris agreement on the use of music on YouTube has been reached.

The Polaris Music hub has negotiated new agreements between both Spotify and Apple and the three Nordic collection societies Teosto (Fi), Koda (Dk) and TONO (NO).

In the Nordic region, the number of inhabitants subscribing to a music streaming service has gone up by 14 per cent since 2018.

The Polaris Music hub, which licences the repertoires of the three Nordic collection societies Koda, Teosto, and Tono online, has entered into licencing agreements with SoundCloud.

Polaris , the collective music rights management initiative formed by Nordic societies Koda, Teosto and TONO, has launched the Polaris Hub, an online licensing and processing collaboration.

Polaris Hub is looking for a new member to join the team. Someone who shares our passion for music and digital services and would like to work hard for songwriters to get paid fairly for the use of their music on online music services.

Almost everyone in the nordics stream music, but only 43% are premium subscribers. Average music streaming time among all streamers is over 11 hours per week. The most frequently used service is youtube, with spotify as number two, but music is also prominently featured on social media such as facebook and instagram. Even though 69%…