Analysis News Snapchat owner sued by Swiss collection society for ‘refusing to pay authors and publishers for music on its platform’ SESAC applaud's SUISA's efforts to take Snap Inc to task over alleged copyright infringement
News Sony Music Publishing teams with Domain Capital to acquire career-spanning catalog from hit songwriter Ashley Gorley. (MBW’s sources put the deal at $40m.) Gorley had three cuts featured on the standard version of the biggest album in the US last year, Morgan Wallen's Dangerous: The Double Album
News Warner Music Group posts $1.38bn in calendar Q1 revenue, up 13.2% YoY Major sellers in the quarter included Ed Sheeran, Michael Bublé, Dua Lipa and Red Hot Chili Peppers
Analysis News Sony generated $1.99bn from recorded music and music publishing in calendar Q1, up 13.5% YoY MBW calculates growth in Sony's music publishing and recorded music revenues in calendar Q1
Analysis News Last week, Daniel Ek bought $50m in Spotify stock. Today, Spotify’s share price sunk to an all-time low. Ek tweeted on Friday that he believed Spotify's "best days are ahead"
News BMG slams ‘industry consensus that turned a blind eye to a 15-year pay freeze for songwriters’ “We regret on this occasion that we did not speak out earlier and more robustly against an industry consensus that turned a blind eye to what has been a 15-year pay freeze for songwriters."
Analysis News Pink Floyd considering sale of recorded music catalog for hundreds of millions of dollars, say Bloomberg sources Warner bought control of Pink Floyd with Parlophone. But not, it seems, for the long term.
Analysis Interviews The Fed just raised interest rates. So did the Bank Of England. A leading music asset valuer explains why it isn’t worrying. Citrin Cooperman's Nari Matsuura explains, in detail, why her firm's Discount Rate for music assets isn't changing
Analysis News Confirmed: Sony Music paid Universal €102 million for stake in Todd Moscowitz’s Alamo Records A new nugget of information emerges - and MBW does the math
Interviews ‘If the music industry wants to continue its exponential growth, its data backbone needs to become significantly more efficient.’ With partnerships in place with Warner, Deezer, FUGA and more, Verifi Media believes its patent-pending tech is a game-changer for music
Analysis News Spotify’s share price crash is a shocker for Daniel Ek. It won’t have best pleased music’s biggest companies. MBW crunches the numbers on Universal and Sony's ownership stakes in Daniel Ek's green machine
Analysis News No Netflix problems here: Spotify added 2m net subscribers in Q1 – despite cutting off 1.5 million subs in Russia Spotiify beats guidance on various key metric for its business – when you factor in Russia – including users and subscribers
Analysis Spotify faces its most crucial earnings call yet. Here are the 3 difficult questions MBW would be asking. After Netflix's shocker of a Q1, all eyes are on Spotify's equivalent fiscal announcement. Here's what MBW would ask Daniel Ek.
Analysis Nearly 80% of artists on Spotify have fewer than 50 monthly listeners There is an ocean of music on Spotify that is a very long way from being popular
News Bob Roback stepping down as CEO of Ingrooves Music Group after 7 years Roback has led Ingrooves through significant revenue growth, as well as global expansion