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CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke discuss five companies likely to find themselves involved in big music industry controversies in 2022. They span the economics of streaming debate, the major label system, the live industry, digital licensing and more. Some of these companies will be more used to finding themselves the focus of people’s anger than others, and some more willing to fight back than others.  SECTION TIMES 01: Spotify (00:04:29) 02: Universal (00:19:48) 03: Viagogo (00:28:13) 04: Twitter (00:35:13) 05: Live Nation (00:43:56) (Timings may be slightly different due to adverts) FURTHER READING • Streaming services push for pre-2018 song royalty rate in US Copyright Royalty Board proceedings (October 2021) • Songwriter groups make final submission to review of US royalty rates on discs and downloads (November 2021) • Artist Rights Alliance calls Spotify’s Discovery Mode “exploitative and unfair” (May 2021) • Believe, TuneCore and DistroKid formally endorse Spotify’s controversial Discovery Mode (Ju