Analysis News Reservoir Media has spent over $695m on catalogs to date (and 5 other things we learned about the company from its new Investor Factsheet) MBW fillets a new investor factsheet published by the publicly-traded firm
Analysis Web3 and Me Scott Cohen, CEO of JKBX and co-founder of The Orchard, on the future of the internet
Analysis How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love The Algorithm (And You Can Too) Conrad Withey, founder and CEO of Instrumental, on why today's new music business excites his company... and his 9 things NOT to do as a modern label
Analysis News The top 1,000 songs on YouTube’s TikTok rival Shorts saw more than 280bn combined views in January 2023 YouTube publishes new set of stats for its short-form video platform
Analysis News BMG annual revenues jumped 30.6% to over $900m in 2022, as it spent $400m on catalog acquisitions Annual EBITDA expands to top $200 million at Bertelsmann-owned music company
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.