Music Business Analysis

Jungkook now has 35.5m+ monthly listeners on Spotify – over half a million more than BTS.

HYBE-signed K-Pop star had 35,578,104 monthly listeners on the music streaming platform as of August 18

TikTok’s Warner deal shows it’s on course to become the MTV of the 21st Century – but to do so, it needs better relations with the entire music biz

MBW Explains is a series of analytical features in which we explore the context behind major music industry talking points – and suggest what might happen next.

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Tencent Music Entertainment reached 99.4m paying subscribers in Q2, as music revenues jumped 47.6%

Tencent Music Entertainment, China’s largest operator of music streaming services, has published its Q2 results

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Will Universal and Warner be able to overcome the problems with licensing ‘Deepfakes’ of their artists?

MBW Reacts is a series of comment pieces from the Music Business Worldwide team. They are our analytical (and sometimes opinionated) reactions to major recent entertainment news stories...

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How Taylor Swift got to re-record her songs… and can any artist make a ‘Taylor’s Version’ of their own albums?

The following op-ed comes from Larry Iser, managing partner at Kinsella Holley Iser Kump Steinsapir LLP.

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How live acts can fully monetise their setlists

The following op-ed comes from long-time music industry journalist Eamonn Forde

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Local artists’ market share is rising on music services, and 3 other things we learned from Denis Ladegaillerie on Believe’s latest earnings call

Paris-headquartered music company published its financial results for the first half of 2023 on Wednesday (August 2)

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India’s Tips Industries generated $6.4m in calendar Q2, up 54% YoY – the company’s best-ever quarterly results

Another major highlight from the company's quarter was its YouTube subscriber growth and view count

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The 3 major music companies generated $1bn more in the first half of 2023 vs. the first half of 2022

MBW crunches the numbers to check in on how the majors performed in the first half of 2022

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Sony generated $2.28bn from recorded music and publishing in calendar Q2, up 12.5% YoY

SZA's SOS was Sony Music's biggest revenue-generating record in calendar Q2, for the second quarter in a row

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Warner Expects ‘More Regular’ Streaming Price Hikes Ahead, and 3 Other Things We Learned On WMG’s Latest Earnings Call

The Warner Music Group boss announced an improved revenue performance from his company for calendar Q2 earlier today

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Kakao and K-Pop giant SM Entertainment are ramping up their US presence. What will that mean for HYBE?

Korea's biggest music companies are increasing their presence in the United States – and they're hungry to grow market share

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The concert business could learn a lot from the software sector’s process of ‘dogfooding’

The following op/ed comes from long-time music industry journalist Eamonn Forde

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Would it be worth Spotify shutting down its free tier in the US?

Delving into the math and the logic behind the prospect of Spotify making a dramatic move in the world's biggest market

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‘Touring can push you past the limits of mind and body, leading to burnouts, breakdowns, overdoses and relapses.’

Exhilarating shows, adoring fans and global adventures – what’s not to love about touring? Tamsin Embleton, MA, MBACP and Editor of a new book on the subject, has a few suggestions…