Music Business Analysis

From Deezer’s AI music strategy, to who HYBE might try to buy in Latin Music… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up

The biggest music biz headlines from the past week, all in one place

HYBE is raising a stack of capital to buy Latin Music companies. Who might it target?

MBW picks out 10 companies that might just be on the minds of Scooter Braun and HYBE Chairman, Bang Si-Hyuk

Why a $1 billion deal for Queen’s catalog is possible – and what CNN and The Daily Mail got drastically wrong

A deeper dive into what could become the biggest music catalog deal of all time

Carving up, or growing the pie?

Annabella Coldrick, Chief Executive of the UK-based Music Managers Forum, discusses the major record companies' share of the streaming pie

Why the music business should be watching Japan’s AI developments very closely

MBW Reacts to recent news about AI training in Japan

Stray Kids break K-pop sales record, achieving over 5.1m pre-orders for their new album 5-Star

Seventeen's album FML racked up 4.64m pre-orders

From Queen’s $1bn catalog to HYBE raising $380m for acquisitions in the US… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up

The biggest music biz headlines from the past week, all in one place

If you are terrified about AI music stealing your audiences, what does that say about your faith in your own music?

The following op/ed comes from long-time music industry journalist Eamonn Forde

Live Nation President and CFO talks AI, ticketing legislation and TikTok at J.P. Morgan conference

Live Nation President and CFO Joe Bertold was interviewed at the J.P. Morgan Global Technology, Media and Communications Conference this week

‘We must make life fair for creators, or we will lose the next Paul McCartney.’

CISAC President Bjorn Ulvaeus looks ahead to next week’s CISAC General Assembly in Mexico

Rob Stringer says music streaming fraud ‘is a problem that must be eliminated’, calls for better payouts from short-form video platforms

Sony Music Group Chairman covers various key industry topics in presentation to Sony Corp investors

There are now 120,000 new tracks hitting music streaming services each day

A total of 10.08 million new songs uploaded to the likes of Spotify, YouTube Music and other music streaming services in the first three months of the year alone

It owns a chunk of both Warner Music Group and Universal Music Group. But what is Fidelity Investments?

Fidelity’s holdings of approximately 54.8 million shares of UMG is currently around €1.05 billion ($1.14 billion)

Analysis Data News

Who owns Universal Music Group today?

Music Business Worldwide digs into the numbers behind the institutional shareholders of the largest company in music rights

TikTok is starting to look more and more like SoundCloud

TikTok music strategy moves up a gear with new music discovery hub, and exclusive deals with indie artists