Prelude to a fairer
music industry

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Who decides the next song?

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Our data-driven digital economy calls for a reasonable shift of the music industry’s business model, revenue streams, and operating practices in which everyone is better off.

FAIRMUSE promotes fairness in the European music industry by raising awareness about how music algorithms, data collection, and exploitation models of social media and streaming platforms influence music creators and audiences.

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Shuffle the music industry, together

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The Fair MusE EU research project aimed to analyse fairness in the music eco-system from three perspectives: legal, economic and consumption-oriented.

In this music data dashboard, we present selected quantifiable findings that highlight patterns in music streaming, opinions on fairness and developments of fairness concepts in EU legal texts.

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Fair MusE Project Ends: EU Praises Music Fairness Research

July 9, 2026
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After three years of interdisciplinary research, the EU-funded Fair MusE project has officially wrapped up, earning a clean bill of health from its independent reviewers and the European Research Executive Agency (REA), which confirmed the project "has been completed" and "has fully achieved its objectives and milestones."

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Award-winning Fair MusE project releases new video on the future of music fairness

May 19, 2026
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Recorded during the final event of in Brussels, a newly released video featuring project coordinator Giuseppe Mazziotti and Silvia Ielmini reflects on the project’s mission to bring greater fairness and transparency to Europe’s digital music ecosystem. Produced as part of the prize awarded to Fair MusE after winning the .eu Web Awards, the video revisits the project’s key achievements while opening a wider conversation on the future of music streaming, creators’ rights, and the sustainability of artistic creation in the platform era.

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Fair MusE Final Conference Puts Fairness in Digital Music Services at the Centre of European Policy Debate

March 18, 2026
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On 18 February 2026, more than 130 stakeholders gathered in Brussels for the final conference of the Fair MusE project, marking the culmination of three years of research into one of the most pressing questions facing Europe’s cultural and digital policy: how to ensure fairness for music creators in a platform-driven ecosystem.