Four Fearless Music Business Predictions For 2016

Been Around The World: Swift’s1989 Tour has taken her to most of the continents on the planet–and will boost her into a new stratosphere of earnings. (Photo by Graham Denholm/Getty Images).

Around this time last year, I pulled out my crystal ball and made four music business prognostications for 2015–and though my foresight wasn’t quite as sharp as hindsight, it wasn’t too shabby.

I predicted that Ed Sheeran would become the world’s top male pop star (he went on to bank $57.5 million, trailin...