Analysis Blog Music merchandise is big business. But for touring artists, it’s callously inequitable. Eamonn Forde explores the economics of selling merch at music venues
Analysis News Once again, nearly 98% of 18-to-49-year-olds in the US didn’t watch the Grammys on Sunday The 2021 Superbowl's live TV audience was more than ten times the size of the 2022 Grammys
Analysis News BMG’s annual revenues grew 10.1% to $784m in 2021 Bertelsmann confirms music company's latest annual fiscal numbers
Analysis News An MBW reader just blew open the Spotify fake artists story. Here’s what they have to say. This is an email you're gonna want to read
Analysis News Remember Spotify’s fake artists? They’re still going strong – and still attracting scandal. Have you heard of Firefly or Chillmi? Two of the biggest indie labels going, with so many artists on their books!
Analysis News From Spotify’s $7bn payout in 2021, to the global record industry’s $25.9bn revenues: It’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up The biggest stories from the past week – and why they matter
Analysis News Spotify just dropped a stat that changes everything about how you should judge the streaming economy Music Business Worldwide's Talking Trends podcast delves into a major new revelation from Spotify
Analysis News 52,600 artists generated over $10k on Spotify last year – and 15,140 of them uploaded their own music Revelatory new stats published on Spotify's updated Loud & Clear website today
Analysis News ASCAP’s revenues grew by just $8m in 2021, and couldn’t catch BMI’s annual collections PRO blames fall in international collections on "business closures and the lack of vaccinations" in certain non-US territories
Analysis Blog DSPs will lead music’s mainstream Web3 adoption, but fan-powered music communities will share the wealth The following MBW op/ed comes from Bruno Guez, CEO of Digital rights administration company Revelator
Analysis News Tempo Music’s catalog is up for sale – and we expect it to go for more than $500 million Tempo was founded by Providence in partnership with Warner Music Group in 2019
Analysis News Spotify is paying $310m to Barcelona for a sponsorship. According to our calculations, that’s more than it’s ever paid an artist in royalties. Spotify announced its big deal yesterday. It's worth 89.08 billion streams.
Analysis News France’s recorded music industry topped $1bn in 2021 Results were published today (March 15) by French trade body SNEP
Analysis News Is this the real reason Epic Games acquired Bandcamp? (Clue: It’s got nothing to do with the metaverse.) Did shock acquisition have more to do with Big Tech commission rates than it did virtual worlds?
Analysis News Sony spent an average of $91m on music catalog acquisitions every month over the past 10 months Stat was recently revealed on an investor presentation by Sony Corp's Hiroki Totoki