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
Interviews Luis Sánchez, CEO of AfinArte: ‘Latin artists are now global artists.’ MBW's Trailblazers series kicks off with one of Mexico's premier independent music entrepreneurs
News Cinq Music raises $100m from parent GoDigital to buy music rights, expand internationally GoDigital represents music from stars such as Anuel AA, Bad Bunny, and Jason Derulo
News Music distribution and payments platform Stem raises $20 million in fresh funding round Stem, which also raised $10 million in August 2020, has launched a number of financial tools for indie artists
News Confirmed: Deezer, with a $1.16bn valuation, is going public via merger with SPAC in France It was rumored last week – now it's a done deal
News Universal’s merch company, Bravado, appoints Epic Rights co-founder Jesper Poulsen as General Manager Poulsen was mentored by his fellow Epic Rights co-founder, Dell Furano
News Seven years after its IPO collapsed, Deezer is in talks to to go public again – via a SPAC Len Blavatnik's Access took control of Deezer via an equity acquisition in 2016
Analysis News Latin music is on course to generate over $1 billion in the US in 2022 MBW calculations suggest that Latin music claimed a near-7% market share of US streaming revenues last year
Analysis News Judges in the US have hinted that the mechanical royalty rate paid to publishers and songwriters for vinyl sales should rise. The major labels’ lawyers have come out swinging. MBW brings you the blow-by-blow of an extraordinary legal battle taking place in the US. It's got everything!