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
Analysis Blog Latin Grammys cap a blockbuster year for Latin Music Research and revenues highlight music’s fastest growing genre
Analysis News Why the ’80/20 rule’ will be crucial to Hipgnosis’ mission to buy billions of dollars of music catalogs in 2022 and beyond Hipgnosis has over $2.5 billion of deals in the pipeline. The question of who's going to pay for them requires a complex but important answer.
Analysis Blog Wax on, wax off: unblocking the great vinyl logjam Columnist Eamonn Forde's 12-point checklist to fix the vinyl backlog
Analysis News From the Astroworld tragedy to Universal’s new virtual band – It’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up The music industry's biggest few stories from the past week, and why they matter
Analysis Blog TikTok and social media’s explosion in music is only going to get louder WeGenerate's Luka Zak on how short-form video and new social media platforms are transforming the industry
Analysis Blog Box clutter: why special edition albums need to forget the kitchen sink drama Columnist Eamonn Forde delves into the world of anniversary boxsets...
Analysis News YouTube’s ads business is now bigger than the entire global record business MBW predicts that YouTube's ad revenues could breach the $30 billion mark this year alone
Analysis News Why did BTS leave Sony for Universal? And what’s up with Warner Music Group’s $10bn value growth? MBW's Talking Trends podcast on BTS's shock move, and Warner's rapid rise in value
Analysis News Sony Music’s quarterly streaming revenues burst above $1bn for the first time MBW breaks down the numbers in an historic quarter for Rob Stringer's major
Analysis Blog Six reasons why regionality still matters for the global music streaming business This MBW op/ed comes from Ryan Blakeley, a Ph.D. in Musicology candidate at the Eastman School of Music.
Analysis News Is Universal Music Group going to post a $2bn EBITDA profit this year? UMG announces another impressive set of quarterly results – this time as a public company