Analysis News BMG revenues top $290m in first half of 2018, with recorded music making up over a third of sales Overall sales up 9.2% on a constant currency basis, says Hartwig Masuch
Analysis Artists are publicly rebelling against streaming services. Will their grievances gather momentum? The likes of Spotify and YouTube have faced backlash from Nicki Minaj, Cupcakke and Thom Yorke
Analysis Blog The Trouble with SiriusXM’s Opposition to the Music Modernization Act NMPA chief David Israelite responds to op/ed which decried the objectives of the MMA bill
Analysis Nicki Minaj’s scattergun rant revealed one thing very clearly: the idea of an ‘album chart’ is in disarray Rapper's outburst contained some clear warning signs for the industry. Will it listen?
Analysis News The major labels now turn over more than $1bn a month. But who’s ruling 2018? Streaming revenues at the major labels have almost doubled over the past two years
Analysis Blog The music industry must beware it doesn’t get eaten up by phone giants’ hunger for growth Telco giants are back in love with music - but is that definitely such as good thing?
Analysis Blog My music startup failed multiple times before we got it right. Here’s what I learned. Fanbytes co-founder Timothy Armoo on pivoting three times - and then succeeding
Analysis What happens when artists and record labels build and buy their own media companies? Cherie Hu breaks down the increasing similarities between 'music companies' and 'media companies'
Analysis News Spotify is on a collision course with the major record companies. Here’s why. Spotify has a number of tricky issues to face down during its 2019 negotiations with the biggest labels
Analysis News Apple Music beats Spotify to biggest day-one streaming number for Travis Scott’s Astroworld Following J.Cole and Drake albums, Apple's done it again...
Analysis Why Spotify faces a difficult hardware conundrum (and so does Sonos) Can both music 'pureplay' companies keep the likes of Amazon and Apple at bay?
Analysis News The music business’s biggest stories of the past week: Universal, Vivendi, Sony, Apple, Troy Carter Here's what caught our attention over the past seven days...
Analysis News Apple Music has over 25m paying subscribers in North America (and more than Spotify) Apple and Spotify now have comfortably over 50m paying subs in the US and Canada between them
Analysis News Three years ago, Pandora had more users than Spotify. Now it’s over 100m behind. Total active users on the US-based platform fell yet again to 71.4m in Q2
Analysis News Live Nation’s half-year revenues have grown by more than 100% since 2010 Company on course for another $10bn-plus sales year in 2018