Analysis Blog On… ‘industry plants’ and the false comfort of conspiracy theories In the following op/ed, long-time music industry journalist Eamonn Forde explores, and tears apart, the notion of the 'industry plant'
Analysis News HYBE’s CEO delivered some strong fiscal results to investors last week. Except it wasn’t him. It was an AI clone. Jiwon Park's voice on company's earnings call was actually an AI replication via HYBE's Supertone technology
Analysis Hipgnosis Songs Fund’s assets are now valued at $690 million less than they were before. Blackstone must be licking its lips. JP Morgan analyst says the likelihood of a Blackstone takeover just increased, thanks to Shot Tower's re-valuation of HSF
Analysis News Apple fined nearly $2bn in EU over ‘abusive’ app store rules for music streaming services – and it could potentially be on the hook for more damages Apple plans to appeal the decision
Analysis News A mystery company is mulling a $1.8 billion+ bid for Believe… but may be shut out by Denis Ladegaillerie consortium’s prior dealings Yet Ladegaillerie and co have a trump card up their sleeve
Analysis News From Universal Music’s cost-saving ‘redesign’ to Warner’s superfan app… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up The five biggest stories to hit our headlines over the past seven days…
Analysis News As D-Day arrives for TikTok’s Universal feud, UMPG tells songwriters: ‘They simply do not value your music’ Universal Music Publishing Group has in the past 24 hours written a new missive to its songwriters
Analysis Over 38% of music on TikTok is ‘modified’, says study that analyzed 100 million audio tracks on the platform Either pitch or speed of these tracks were altered, according to Pex data
Analysis Blog The UK music industry’s next milestone and how we get there MBW Views is a series of op/eds from eminent music industry people… with something to say. The following comes from Kim Bayley, CEO of the UK's digital entertainment and retail association ERA.
Analysis So… maybe don’t bet your house on Universal Music Group and TikTok reaching a deal anytime soon UMG and Sir Lucian Grainge today doubled down on their borderline disgust with the licensing offer/s they've received from TikTok in recent months
Analysis News Universal Music Group generated over $1 billion per month on average in 2023 MBW crunches the numbers from UMG's latest quarterly earnings announcement
Analysis News Warner Music Group is building a superfan app WMG CEO Robert Kyncl revealed the news at the Web Summit tech conference in Doha, Qatar on Tuesday, February 27
Analysis TikTok vs. Universal Music Group: The Cremation of Once-Cuddlesome Relations Surveying the landscape of a battle between music's biggest rightsholder and ByteDance's video juggernaut
Analysis News TikTok: UMG’s catalog, including publishing, only makes up ‘approximately 30% of popular music on our platform’ It's a surprising claim from the ByteDance company...
Analysis News Live Nation is ‘surprised and thrilled’ its all-in ticket pricing is a success… and 3 other things we learned on the company’s latest earnings call In 2023, stadium shows led Live Nation’s attendance growth, with more than 29 million fans attending stadium shows, an increase of 60% YoY