Analysis News Over 1,000 songs with human-mimicking AI vocals have been released by Tencent Music in China. One of them has 100m streams. TME's Cussion Pang confirms firm has made a lot of progress with its Lingyin Engine
Analysis Blog How can artists benefit from the metaverse? The following MBW op/ed comes from Samuel Arvidsson, Chief Commercial Officer at Stockholm-based metaverse developer, The Gang
Analysis News TikTok, Meta, Russia, and 37% growth: 5 things we learned from Believe’s Q3 earnings call Denis Ladegaillerie and Xavier Dumont tackle analyst questions, hinting at future trends in the business
Analysis Blog Games have raced ahead to build Web3, but it’s not too late for music The following MBW op/ed comes from Bruno Guez, CEO of Digital rights administration company Revelator
Analysis News YouTube Music and Premium surpass 80m paid subscribers That subscriber figure marks a 30 million increase on the last subscriber figure
Analysis News Bad Bunny is Apple Music’s Artist of the Year for 2022 Fouth album Un Verano Sin Ti is the platform's most streamed album of 2022
Analysis News Labels asking TikTok for share of ad revenue in new deal talks (report) Bloomberg reports that the three majors are asking TikTok for a share of ad revenues in talks for new deals
Analysis News Reservoir Media revenues grow 10% YoY to $33.3m in calendar Q3 Company has published new investor filings for the three months to end of September
Analysis News Elon Musk says Twitter will soon ‘share revenue with content creators’. Will that include music? Musk says Twitter is planning to host its own longer-form video content – and share revenue with creators
Analysis News Resso code hints at ‘TikTok Music’ global rollout preparation (report) Code discovered within TikTok’s sister app Resso hints at further details about ByteDance's music app plans
Analysis News From Live Nation’s 44m concertgoers in Q3 to Sony’s $2.15bn revenues… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up Our biggest stories of the week, brought to you in association with Centtrip
Analysis News Over 44m people attended Live Nation concerts in Q3 2022 – its highest quarterly attendance ever Concerts giant Live Nation just delivered what it says was its 'biggest summer concert season in history'.
Analysis News Believe’s revenues jumped by 37% YoY in Q3. It’s just raised its FY forecast for the second time this year. Believe is on course to turn over more than €750 million this year, up by around a third vs. 2021
Analysis News HYBE generated revenues of $312m in Q3, up 30.6% YoY HYBE publishes investor filing for the three months to end of September
Analysis News Spotify considering buying MENA-focused rival Anghami (report) Anghami listed on the NASDAQ in New York in February