Analysis News About that catalog music stat we published the other day… MRC Data has issued a correction to its numbers for 2021. As a result, MBW has had to re-run our own calculations based on that data.
Analysis News At least $5 billion was spent on music rights acquisitions in 2021. Could 2022 be even bigger? MBW rifles back through our 2021 headlines to get a grip on just how huge a year it was for music rights buyouts
Analysis News From WMG’s $250m David Bowie deal to catalog claiming 82% of the US market: It’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up The biggest stories of the week – and why they matter
Analysis Over 73% of the US music market is now claimed by catalog records, rather than new releases (UPDATE) MBW's analysis of latest MRC Data numbers show that less than a fifth of US market in H2 2021 was made up of new releases
Analysis Blog Catch ’22: A Complete* List Of Absolutely Everything The Music Business Needs To Fix Or Get Rid Of In 2022 (*Almost) Eamonn Forde suggests 22 new year's resolutions for the music business...
Analysis The brakes have been slammed on audio streaming’s growth in the UK. Is the US next? Stat Of The Week: Latest BPI numbers show that UK market's streaming volume growth shrunk considerably last year versus 2020
Analysis Sony Music: AWAL would have ‘struggled to maintain its position’ if we hadn’t bought it MBW has read Sony's 48-page submission to the CMA: Here's our summary
Analysis News From Rob Stringer’s big bet on Springsteen to Michelle Jubelirer taking the Chair: It’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up The biggest stories of the week – and why they matter
Analysis News The important detail of Bruce Springsteen’s $500m-plus catalog sale to Sony Music Group Sony had a co-investor in the acquisition of publishing rights: Todd Boehly's Eldridge Industries
Analysis News Hipgnosis Songs Fund now owns a catalog of 65,413 songs… worth a combined $2.55bn "As we look forward, despite the emergence of the Omicron variant of COVID-19, we continue to see a promising outlook for the music industry and our Catalogues."
Analysis News From Live Nation’s $416m acquisition to Spotify’s comedy battle: It’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up The biggest stories from the past week – and why they matter
Analysis Blog Get Bucks: The Beatles are pushing D2C to breaking point Eamonn Forde is taken aback by The Beatles' clothing collection by Stella McCartney
Analysis News Could Spotify face $100 million-plus lawsuits over its comedy album faux pas? MBW's Talking Trends looks into a growing dispute on Daniel Ek's platform
Analysis News Universal vs Spotify: Which of music’s two giants will be worth more at the end of 2021? It's neck-and-neck right now, with Universal $7 billion ahead of Spotify following a damaging wave of headlines about stand-up comedians
Analysis News Major record companies are losing market share on Spotify. But Spotify is gaining market share in Warner’s own revenues. Spotify, Apple, and YouTube contributed 42% of Warner Music Group's annual revenues in FY2021 between them