Analysis News Reservoir revenues grow 46% to $24.3m in calendar Q2 Reservoir Media has published the financial results for its fiscal Q1 2023 (calendar Q2, 2022)
Analysis News From Live Nation’s 100m tickets to Concord’s eight-figure deal… It’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up The biggest stories from the past week - and why they matter
Analysis News Live Nation has already sold 100m tickets for concerts in 2022 – more than it sold in the whole of 2019 Company generated revenues of $6.2bn across all divisions in the first six months of the year, according to new investor filing
Analysis Blog ‘A publicly accessible platform on which anyone can make undeletable, tamper-proof assertions about their ownership of or contribution to music sounds like the foundations of anarchy’ An MBW op/ed from Mark Douglas, Chief Information Officer at PPL, the UK's music licensing company for over 130,000 performers and recording rightsholders.
Analysis News HYBE revenues soar 83.8% to $391m in Q2… despite BTS hiatus announcement K-pop giant HYBE publishes its financial results for Q2 2022
Analysis From Suffering to Recovering: The stats that explain why the UK music industry is set for a dramatic post-lockdown comeback. Will Page crunches the numbers of the UK's live recovery, and streaming habits, to suggest a major rebound for the wiser business
Analysis Blog ‘Streaming challenges can be met only by artists and labels working together.’ This MBW op/ed comes from Geoff Taylor, Chief Executive of the BPI, the UK’s trade body for the recorded music industry
Analysis Blog News How to justify Bruce Springsteen’s skyrocketing ticket prices MBW Reacts is a series of short comment pieces from the MBW team
Analysis News Sir Lucian Grainge on Universal’s new deal with Meta – and his belief that investment banks don’t ‘have the skill-sets or ability to exploit music rights’ Grainge was joined by Michael Nash and Boyd Muir on a call with analysts last week
Analysis News Is old music really exploding on TikTok, or has our definition of ‘catalog’ become outdated? New Chartmetric report shines a light on relevant data within much-discussed industry issue
Analysis News From Meta losing Kobalt’s catalog to Universal’s $2.7bn in Q2… It’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up The biggest stories from the past week - and why they matter
Analysis News Sony generated over $2bn from recorded music and publishing in calendar Q2; recorded music revenues were up 11.2% YoY Recorded music streaming revenues were up 7.9% YoY in the quarter, MBW calculates
Analysis News Universal Music Group generated $2.7 billion in Q2; recorded music subscription streaming revenue grew 7.0% YoY BTS were UMG's biggest-selling artist globally in Q2 2022
Analysis Blog What’s music’s next new format? This op/ed comes from Inder Phull, CEO and co-founder of gaming and music metaverse company PIXELYNX
Analysis Blog Interviews Why I’m doubling our investment in the UK music industry, just when people say it’s losing global power. Lucas Keller’s belief in the hit-making ability of British songwriters, producers and artists is unwavering...