NDM story

Spotify says it's a matter of time before it overtakes Apple's itunes in Europe: 

Summary of the story: 

Streaming music service declares the fact that it has added 11 million active users in the UK alone in the last four months, meaning it is close to overtaking Apple's itunes as the biggest music service in Europe. Kevin Brown has stated that "some of our partners are saying that Spotify is now generating more revenue each month across Continental Europe than iTunes." This emphasizes the fact that Spotify is now becoming more popular with a larger audience/users. This illustrates the fact that download sales are declining and Spotify is increasing, Brown also mentioned that a "significant amount" of the million new British Spotify users are paying for a subscription, rather than listening to its free, advertising-supported version. According to research, Spotify stated in March 2013 that globally, it had 24 active users, including 6 million paying subscribers. 

Opinion : I think that the fact that spotify is taking over itunes will cause a concern for some musicians and songwriters, as they will be worried about the streaming's ability to sustain artists careers- a sale of 99p itunes download, which spotify stream is much cheaper. 

Nuts Magazine to close: 

The Nuts magazine is to close due to the portrayal of sexism and how women are portrayed through their magazines, The magazine has faced many criticisms due to the portrayal of women and many have argued that the magazine is becoming more like "porn" to the nude images of women, in my opinion I think the fact that the magazine is closing is going extreme, due to the fact that the audience should be used to seeing nude images as women are portrayed in this type of way in many other industries, for example, music videos, films etc, however, it could also be argued that the fact that these magazines are sold in public places (shops) cold effect the younger audience (children) into thinking this is what women are supposed to look like, or into believing that women should be posing nude for money. Therefore, it could be a balanced argument arguing from the negative and positive side.