News Amazon Music raises standard monthly subscription price from $9.99 to $10.99. (Spotify, so far, still refuses to do the same.) Amazon had over 80 million paying music subscribers last year, according to Midia Research
News Tim Matusch joins Warner Music Group as EVP, Strategy & Operations Former YouTube and AOL exec becomes Robert Kyncl's first senior hire at major music company
Analysis News The Top 10 hits in the US last year accounted for fewer than 1 in every 200 streams The US's Top 10 streaming hits, combined, were cumulatively responsible for less than 0.5% of all on-demand audio plays in the US annually
News Sir Lucian Grainge: Music needs a new streaming payout model… and we’re working on it. Universal boss takes aim at streaming models that he says are being gamed by 'bad actors'
Analysis News The story of Trefuego’s TikTok hit 90mh – and Sony’s bid to scrub it from the internet It was a TikTok viral hit with hundreds of millions of streams – before Sony issued a copyright takedown. But five months on, it won't go away.
Analysis News Universal Music Group sued over its Spotify equity ownership by artist in class action lawsuit Black Sheep says it should have received equity from UMG's holding in Daniel Ek's company
Analysis News 5 numbers that will come to define the music business in 2023 MBW picks out a handful of statistics underpinning some of the red-hot issues bubbling away as we type...
Analysis News Universal Music Group finished 2022 worth nearly three times as much as Spotify Warner Music Group is worth more than SPOT, too, following a troubling year for the streamer's investors
News Copyright Royalty Board officially accepts new rates that will see songwriters paid more in the US over the next 5 years The services which will be affected by / bound to the new CRB IV rates are: Amazon Music, Apple Music, Google / YouTube Music, Pandora, and Spotify
Analysis News 4 things we learned from Merck Mercuriadis’ Q&A with Hipgnosis Songs Fund analysts Hipgnosis founder discusses decay curves, ownership of catalogs and more in London
News Moonage Daydream, BMG and Live Nation’s David Bowie documentary, has grossed more than $12m this year at the box office Critically acclaimed movie was released in September
Interviews Allen Kovac and Better Noise pivoted to horror movies during the pandemic – and found a promotional goldmine for rock artists. Over 150 million views of music videos with The Retaliators footage have taken place on YouTube alone
News A year ago, Patrick Moxey sold Ultra Records to Sony Music. Now the label is suing his publishing company. Sony-owned Ultra Records says it terminated Moxey's right to use the Ultra name for his independent pubco
Analysis News SoundCloud’s revenues grew 19% YoY to $273m in 2021. Now it’s predicting that ‘fandom will be the next big format for the music business’. 2021 was the first year that SoundCloud's annual revenues topped a quarter of a billion dollars
News Universal Music has a new boss in Australia: Sean Warner Warner succeeds George Ash, who is retiring from UMG