Analysis News 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
Analysis Blog 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
Analysis News No Netflix problems here: Spotify added 2m net subscribers in Q1 – despite cutting off 1.5 million subs in RussiaSpotiify beats guidance on various key metric for its business – when you factor in Russia – including users and subscribers
Analysis 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.
Analysis Nearly 80% of artists on Spotify have fewer than 50 monthly listenersThere is an ocean of music on Spotify that is a very long way from being popular
Analysis Blog Why Ed Sheeran’s copyright victory matters – by the lawyers that represented him.The following op/ed comes from Simon Goodbody and Mark Krais, Partner and co-founding Partner at Bray & Krais Solicitors
Analysis News With Netflix losing subscribers, is music’s own streaming party over?MBW founder Tim Ingham analyzes Netflix's surprise Q1 2022 downturn, and the impact it might have on Spotify
Analysis Blog Myth-understandings: what price truth in musical memoirs?Eamonn Forde explores mythology in music biopics and documentaries
Analysis News Latin music is on course to generate over $1 billion in the US in 2022MBW calculations suggest that Latin music claimed a near-7% market share of US streaming revenues last year
Analysis Blog Yes, Blockchain might well revolutionise music royalties. No, it’s not going to happen anytime soon.Tom Allen, founder of Curve Royalty Systems, urges caution and patience for those pinning their hopes on a tech-driven miracle
Analysis News Judges in the US have hinted that the mechanical royalty rate paid to publishers and songwriters for vinyl sales should rise. The major labels’ lawyers have come out swinging.MBW brings you the blow-by-blow of an extraordinary legal battle taking place in the US. It's got everything!
Analysis Blog With touring costs spiralling, artists mustn’t dismiss how much they’re wasting on FX payments.Voly founder Ian Flanagan reveals how much a major league artist could have saved on their tour had they shopped around
Analysis Blog Music merchandise is big business. But for touring artists, it’s callously inequitable.Eamonn Forde explores the economics of selling merch at music venues
Analysis News Once again, nearly 98% of 18-to-49-year-olds in the US didn’t watch the Grammys on SundayThe 2021 Superbowl's live TV audience was more than ten times the size of the 2022 Grammys
Analysis News BMG’s annual revenues grew 10.1% to $784m in 2021Bertelsmann confirms music company's latest annual fiscal numbers