Analysis News From Bad Bunny’s 18.5bn Spotify streams to Universal acquiring a 49% stake in [PIAS]… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-UpOur biggest stories of the week, brought to you in association with Centtrip
Analysis News In 2021, Bad Bunny was the world’s biggest artist on Spotify with 9bn streams. This year, he doubled that tally.Bad Bunny received more than 18.5 billion streams this year
Analysis News Music audio streams just crossed the 1 trillion mark for the first time ever in a single year in the USUS market monitor Luminate reports total US music streams figure for 2022
Analysis News Concord music rights to fuel $1.65bn Apollo bond offering – reportReport marks the latest news about a music company launching bond offerings via securitized royalties from copyrights
Analysis The music industry isn’t ready for the AI revolution.Fruits Music founder, Stef Van Vugt, believes that AI will create a major opportunity for ambitious companies to challenge the majors
Analysis News From Utopia Music downsizing its workforce to Warner’s $1.5bn in calendar Q3… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-UpOur biggest stories of the week, brought to you in association with Centtrip
Analysis News Warner Music Group generated $92m from ’emerging platforms’ in calendar Q3 – and other takeaways from Steve Cooper’s last earnings call with WMGWarner's share price soared 15% following the announcement of the earnings on Tuesday
Analysis 10 years ago, Warner Music’s Top 5 superstars generated 15% of its revenue. Today, that number is down to just 5%.MBW drills into the numbers of Steve Cooper's surprising revelation on WMG's earnings call this week
Analysis News Taylor Swift slams ‘excruciating’ tour presale, as Live Nation addresses Ticketmaster competition concerns Live Nation publishes statement after Ticketmaster site crashes during ‘Verified Fan’ sale for Taylor Swift tour
Analysis Blog Are creators being used as cannon fodder in the NFT game?The following MBW op/ed comes from PPL CIO Mark Douglas.
Analysis Blog While in Qatar, gently weep: music and the rancid politics of culture-washing at the World CupEamonn Forde gives his views on the upcoming football (soccer) World Cup, and music's involvement
Analysis News Amazon starts making layoffs as part of expected 10,000 job cuts (report)Online shopping giant is expected to reduce its workforce by 3%
Analysis News Over 1,000 songs with human-mimicking AI vocals have been released by Tencent Music in China. One of them has 100m streams.TME's Cussion Pang confirms firm has made a lot of progress with its Lingyin Engine
Analysis Blog How can artists benefit from the metaverse?The following MBW op/ed comes from Samuel Arvidsson, Chief Commercial Officer at Stockholm-based metaverse developer, The Gang
Analysis News TikTok, Meta, Russia, and 37% growth: 5 things we learned from Believe’s Q3 earnings callDenis Ladegaillerie and Xavier Dumont tackle analyst questions, hinting at future trends in the business