Analysis News Streaming is getting bigger in Japan, with the likes of Spotify generating over $380m in market last year Industry audio streaming revenues grew 33.8% in Japan last year, shows MBW analysis
Analysis News Did Germany just overtake the UK as the world’s third biggest recorded music market? BVMI numbers are slightly bigger than UK's for last year – but there's a caveat
Interviews ‘Essentially, music is an emotional language that connects people.’ Andy Macdonald, founder of Go! Discs and Independiente, won the A&R Icon Award in London last November. We sat down with him to hear his career story.
Analysis It’s happened: The major labels are now generating over $1m every hour from streaming MBW analysis shows that Universal saw recorded music streaming growth in excess of $600m in 2019
News Artificial Intelligence made a song in the style of Travis Scott. It sounds unnervingly like Travis Scott. "She got the crew on top of my chain (It's lit); Wasted in the street like a pain (Straight up)."
Analysis YouTube says it paid the music industry over $3bn last year – equivalent to 20% of its annual ad revenue. Is that good? On balance, YouTube looks likely to have just become the global music industry's second biggest streaming partner
News Universal Music Group is now an $8bn-a-year company, as streaming revenues surge 21.5% in record 2019 Company now generates more than $11m every day from streaming
News Universal Music Group set for IPO in the next 3 years News comes a week after Access Industries and Warner Music Group announced their intention to go public
News Scooter Braun joins $22m funding round for cannabis company… but he’s not the first major artist manager to invest in CBD Bill Curbishley, Ian McAndrew and Colin Lester are all investors in $5m-backed Apothem Labs
News Apple poaches Warner exec Jeff Bronikowski for Global Head of Music Strategic Initiatives role The list of ex-Warner execs running music at digital services grows again
Interviews ‘There’s nothing more exciting than finding a new idea…’ Raine Group partner Fred Davis talks big deals, new money and Daniel Ek
News SoundCloud secures $75m investment from Pandora owner SiriusXM SiriusXM has purchased $75 million of securities for a minority investment
News Tencent, set to control 10% of Universal, also owns 9.1% of Spotify – but Daniel Ek has the final say on firm’s stake Spotify's founder and CEO has control of voting shares linked to Tencent's stake in his company
Analysis News Jay-Z’s TIDAL saw global revenues rise to $148m in 2018 (update) Losses narrow at streaming service which famously served superstars with equity stakes