Analysis News Universal Music Group spent $459m on catalog acquisitions last year… less than half what it spent in 2020 New investor presentation reveals interesting numbers and facts around UMG's acquisition strategy
Analysis News Universal Music Group surpassed $10 billion in revenues last year. It’s now double the size it was a decade ago. UMG's adjusted annual EBITDA topped $2 billion last year, according to MBW's calcuations
Analysis News Live Nation: We will not do business with Russia following Ukraine invasion "We will not promote shows in Russia, and we will not do business with Russia."
Analysis Blog Why the streaming revolution is unfinished business The following MBW op/ed comes from Kim Bayley, CEO of the UK's Entertainment Retailers Association (ERA)
Analysis News TikTok ups max video length to 10 minutes. Should YouTube be worried? TikTok reportedly generated $4 billion in ad revenues in 2021, and wants to triple that in 2022
Analysis Snoop Dogg is building a crypto empire, one NFT at a time MBW chronicles Calvin Broadus Jr's impressive foray into the NFT space, and the rewards he's reaping
Analysis News Why are major music companies using other people’s money to buy copyrights? MBW founder Tim Ingham responds to recent music biz goings-on in our Talking Trends podcast
Analysis News HYBE, home of BTS, surpassed $1bn in revenues in 2021 – the year it acquired Scooter Braun’s Ithaca Holdings HYBE spent $1 billion on Braun's company in April 2021, and has seen a 58% jump in annual revenues
Analysis The major music companies are in a race to hire the best Web3 talent – before media’s biggest companies beat them to it Interesting developments at Universal, Sony, and Warner in recent weeks hint at the impact Web3 will have on music in the months ahead
Analysis News Kanye West just sold 10,000 Stem Players in 3 days… as he claims he rejected a $100m deal from Apple One of the most interesting release experiments in modern music is about to take place via Ye's Donda 2
Analysis News From SoundCloud’s $218m+ revenues to Snoop Dogg’s $44m+ worth of NFTs: It’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up The biggest stories of the week – and why they matter
Analysis News If you wanted to know why Sony Music bought AWAL… this is why The signing of girl in red to Columbia could be a key case study in the Sony-AWAL story
Analysis News Why Country music could be 2022’s big story in the catalog acquisition space Round Hill's Josh Gruss joins MBW's Tim Ingham to talk country, and the growth in the genre's value
Analysis News YouTube is making close to $100m from advertising revenues every day YouTube generated over $28 billion across the course of 2021
Analysis News SoundCloud’s annual revenues topped $218m in 2020 – and it’s been making bold moves ever since MBW gets our hands on SoundCloud's results from 2020, and they reveal a 31% annual rise in revenues