Music Business Analysis

At $4.9bn, Peloton’s market cap value has plunged to just 10% of what it was in January 2021

Stat Of The Week: Spotify isn't the only music-related tech giant with a rapidly sinking share price

‘What is currently an opaque black box of song royalties, needs to be transformed into a glass box.’

The following op/ed comes from Annabella Coldrick, Chief Executive of the UK's Music Managers Forum

Snapchat owner sued by Swiss collection society for ‘refusing to pay authors and publishers for music on its platform’

SESAC applaud's SUISA's efforts to take Snap Inc to task over alleged copyright infringement

Sony generated $1.99bn from recorded music and music publishing in calendar Q1, up 13.5% YoY

MBW calculates growth in Sony's music publishing and recorded music revenues in calendar Q1

Last week, Daniel Ek bought $50m in Spotify stock. Today, Spotify’s share price sunk to an all-time low.

Ek tweeted on Friday that he believed Spotify's "best days are ahead"

Pink Floyd considering sale of recorded music catalog for hundreds of millions of dollars, say Bloomberg sources

Warner bought control of Pink Floyd with Parlophone. But not, it seems, for the long term.

Analysis Interviews

The Fed just raised interest rates. So did the Bank Of England. A leading music asset valuer explains why it isn’t worrying.

Citrin Cooperman's Nari Matsuura explains, in detail, why her firm's Discount Rate for music assets isn't changing

‘This agreement guarantees a raise for CDs, vinyl and downloads, but we know that songwriters need much more to succeed – they need fairness.’

This op/ed comes from David Israelite, the President & CEO of the National Music Publishers’ Association (NMPA)

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

From The Weeknd’s Universal deal to Spotify’s Q1 results: It’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up

The biggest stories from the past week – and why they matter

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

Could the Music Catalog Rights Boom Generate Windfalls for Non-Superstars?

YM&U Executive Manager, Alex Frankel, on tech that could expand the catalog rush to smaller artists and songwriters

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

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.

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