Posts by Tim Ingham

Hipgnosis Songs Fund names Rob Naylor as new Chairman, Francis Keeling as non-executive director

Former Round Hill board members jump over to Hipgnosis Songs Fund amid continuation turbulence

Taylor Swift’s 1989 (Taylor’s Version) attracted 1,329% more streams than the original version of 1989 in the US last week

What impact will 1989 (Taylor's Version) have on the weekly streams of the original version of the album in future weeks?

Analysis News

Confirmed: From next year, tracks on Spotify will have to be played 1,000 times before they start earning money

Sources close to Spotify's conversations with rightsholders confirm more information about the service's new royalty model

Analysis

Talking ‘garbage’: How can Spotify and co sort the dregs of the music business from the hidden treasures?

On Sir Lucian Grainge's bluntness, Believe's rebellion, and why a careful balance is required to find a true 'artist-centric' formula

News

Morgan Stanley is investing more than $700m to buy music copyrights in partnership with Kobalt

Deal represents a return to managing investment for outside capital for Kobalt, which sold $1.4 billion in portfolios in past few years

Analysis News

Deezer’s ‘artist-centric’ model now has a new ‘user-centric’ element which, despite not really being ‘user-centric’, is quite a clever idea.

MBW Explains: Digging into what Deezer's latest addition to 'artist-centric' really means

News

BMG, following ‘more efficient and more effective’ strategy under new CEO Thomas Coesfeld, reorganizes structure; around 40 staff cut

MBW obtains internal note that confirms a range of changes at Bertelsmann-owned company

Analysis

Hipgnosis Songs Fund has been left concussed by ‘discontinuation’. But with a seemingly rock solid ‘call option’, Merck Mercuriadis still holds all the cards.

On: Hipgnosis Songs Fund, the all important 'call option', Blackstone, and the most likely outcome of this week's mess

News

Daniel Ek just banked $64M selling Spotify shares – three months after he banked $100M doing the same thing

Ek offloads 400,000 shares the day after his company's latest quarterly earnings in the US

News

Paul Burger and Andrew Wilkinson resign as Hipgnosis Songs Fund non-exec directors ahead of tomorrow’s continuation vote

The comes in the same month that HSF confirmed the Chairman of its current board, Andrew Sutch, will step down from his role

Analysis

Spotify is embracing elements of Universal Music Group’s ‘artist-centric’ royalties model – following a new multi-year licensing deal between UMG and Daniel Ek’s platform

Spotify's plans fit with the broad hopes of Sir Lucian Grainge's wishes as outlined at the start of 2023

News

Spotify is changing its royalty model to crush streaming fraud and introduce a minimum payment threshold. Its plan? To shift $1 billion in payouts towards ‘working artists’ over the next 5 years.

Exclusive: Music Business Worldwide has learned of Spotify's plan to introduce a number of new measures in Q1 2024 – and shift $1 billion away from bad actors

News

Blackstone-backed $440m acquisition offer for Hipgnosis Songs Fund assets sees off rival interest

Process clears the way for Thursday's shareholder vote from Hipgnosis Songs Fund

Uncategorized

Analyst that double-downgraded Universal Music Group over AI, streaming concerns earlier this year just upgraded firm’s stock

William Packer at BNP Paribas Exane has been impressed by UMG's Deezer deal and its work with AI companies

News

Hipgnosis Songs Fund confirms that Merck Mercuriadis has an option to buy all of its rights if his investment advisory company is terminated

Hipgnosis Songs Fund board announces Strategic Review of company, while confirming its investment advisor's key contractual clause