Analysis The major record companies release around 3,900 tracks every day. Their problem? That’s a drop in the ocean. The major music companies release only 4% of the daily deluge of tracks hitting audio and video streaming services, new data shows.
Analysis Blog ‘It takes time to deliver this level of change and not everyone is able to move at the same pace’. In this op/ed, PPL CIO Mark Douglas looks at the evolution and benefits of the Virtual Recordings Database
Analysis News Believe has cash ‘firepower’ for acquisitions in 2023. What’s it going to buy? Company published its full-year financial results on March 15
Analysis Blog What impact will Metallica’s pressing plant acquisition have on the vinyl industry? This op/ed comes from long-time music industry journalist Eamonn Forde
Analysis From $26.2 billion to TikTok defending itself… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up The biggest stories on MBW from the past seven days
Analysis 38 million tracks on music streaming services were played ZERO times in 2022. (Or: why Spotify should take a leaf out of Elon Musk’s book.) Should Spotify, in a quest to improve its margin, start playing hardball with its least successful artists?
Analysis Blog ‘Yes, AI is the future of music – but not in the way you’d think.’ The following op-ed comes from Oleg Stavitsky, CEO of AI-powered sound app Endel
Analysis Blog By royal disappointment: Why the coronation will present British pop at its most anaemic This op/ed comes from long-time music industry journalist Eamonn Forde.
Analysis Goldman Sachs predicted the global recorded music biz would generate $27.9bn in 2022. It didn’t. Here’s why. We're sorry. We're going to talk currency models. It's kinda important.
Analysis Blog gamma, Downtown, Utopia, and the rise of the ‘Inside-Out Majors’ The following op/ed comes from UK-based Hunter Giles (pictured inset), who co-founded and leads Infinite Catalog, a royalty accounting software + service company.
Analysis News Fewer DIY artists generated over $10k on Spotify in 2022 than they did in 2021 (according to Spotify’s own figures – update). MBW founder Tim Ingham takes a hard look at Spotify's latest figures regarding independent artists and what they're paid on the platform
Analysis News There were 589m paid streaming users in 2022, driving a 9% rise in global recorded music revenues to $26.2bn Global recorded music body IFPI published its Global Music Report 2023 on Tuesday (March 21)
Analysis Blog ‘Fake streams are nothing new, but the recordings business is only just waking up to the scale of the practice.’ The following op-ed comes from Pascal Bittard, founder of France-based independent distributor IDOL
Analysis News In a shock move, Meta has pulled music by Italian songwriters from its platforms. Is this connected to Mark Zuckerberg’s ‘Year of Efficiency’? A mega dispute is brewing in Italy between music publishers and Mark Zuckerberg's Meta
Analysis News France is ‘struggling’ to reach the paid subscription levels of other major music markets. Is TikTok partly to blame? SNEP report highlights slowdown in subscription streaming growth in key global territory