Music Business Analysis

Recorded music streaming revenues leap up 29.7% year-on-year in Q2

Plus Sundar Pichai says he's pleased with YouTube's progress in subscriptions

Spotify published its financial results for Q2 2021 today (July 28)

But SiriusXM's overall revenues grow handsomely year-on-year anyway

The biggest stories of the past five days – and why they matter

Revelator CEO and Founder Bruno Guez outlines what it would take to fully decentralize music

MBW analysis of MRC Data figures shows a dramatic reduction in streaming market share for Top 10 hits

New MRC Data report shows how catalog has increased its dominance over new music in 2021

TikTok surpasses YouTube for average hours spent per month per user in both the US and the UK on Android

MBW digs behind the finances of a band with true evergreen appeal

The biggest stories of the past five days – and why they matter

Maneskin now count over 29m monthly listeners on Spotify

"Does this signal the end of the Anglo-American dominance of popular music and a new-found pride for European countries in their domestic artists?"

Annabella Coldrick, the CEO of the Music Managers' Forum, on the label policy that's got the whole industry talking

Kim Bayley, the CEO of the UK's Entertainment Retailers Association, shares her thoughts