Analysis The music industry obsesses over the wrong kind of ‘discovery’. MBW founder, Tim Ingham, on the strange reasons we fall in love with artists, and how hard that is to measure
Analysis 3 observations on… how Japan’s music industry caters to (and relies on) ‘superfans’ more than any other market Examples of how Japan's music business has fostered a special kind of connection with superfans in its market
Analysis News From Universal’s missing catalog on TikTok Music to Graham Nash’s catalog sale… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up The five biggest stories to hit our headlines over the past seven days
Analysis News Gap between music and video streaming prices widens as Netflix announces $3 hike to Premium subscriptions Netflix Premium will now cost $22.99 per month in the US, up $3 from $19.99, an increase of 15%
Analysis News AI company Anthropic recently secured up to $4bn in investment from Amazon. Now it’s being sued for copyright infringement by Universal Music Group. The lawsuit claims that 'Anthropic profits richly from its infringement of Publishers’ repertoires and other copyright owners’ works'
Analysis Blog Superfans and supine fans: the music industry is getting its priorities the wrong way around The following op-ed comes from long-time music industry journalist Eamonn Forde
Analysis News BMI will pay songwriters and publishers a smaller portion of its revenues as a for-profit company – while upping its own margin from 10% to 15% of collections. Will its members tolerate this change? New revelations from Michael O'Neill shows that BMI is planning to increase its retained revenues by a third
Analysis News Universal just launched a claims-free music subscription service for content creators with 50,000 tracks and 200,000 sound effects The Universal Music for Creators service starts at $5.99 per month
Analysis News The strategic reason HYBE’s Chairman wants to retire in 10 years, and 2 other things we learned from Bang Si-Hyuk’s recent interview Bang Si-hyuk explained the logic behind HYBE's US expansion, the differences between the US and Korean music industries, and his retirement, in recent chat with Bloomberg
Analysis News From Block’s HIFI acquisition to Warner’s buyout of E-Positive in India… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up The five biggest stories to hit our headlines over the past seven days
Analysis Major record companies hate AI voice-cloning platforms that don’t pay. The one they hate most was created by a 20-year-old UK student. How the RIAA is tuning its legal attention towards a 20-year-old UK student who is making "quite a lot" of money from his AI site
Analysis News The Spotify Top 20 is a snapshot of a much bigger story about independents, majors, and artist ownership From Drake to Taylor Swift, KAROL G, and Bad Bunny – different types of 'independent artist' are operating at the top of the modern global business
Analysis News From Taylor Swift’s $100m in concert film presales to Deezer’s latest artist-centric agreement… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up The five biggest stories to hit our headlines over the past seven days...
Analysis News Taylor Swift’s ‘The Eras Tour’ concert film has already surpassed $100m in global ticket presales Film will start playing in the confirmed 8,500 theatres across 100 countries around the world on October 13
Analysis DistroKid’s Bandzoogle buyout, Songtradr’s Bandcamp acquisition point to the power of D2C commerce (and a potential future battle for ‘superfans’) Why two deals announced in the last month are connected