Analysis News Refunds, revenues and redundancies: Behind the numbers of Live Nation’s Q3 earnings What we learned from Michael Rapino and co. during firm's quarterly fiscal update last week
Analysis Spotify is testing price rises and paying labels billions – but, in alarming news for investors, it appears to have a subscriber problem in emerging markets (update) MBW digs into the numbers behind Spotify's newly-announced Q3 results – and discovers a surprising failure in the company's mission to grow everywhere
Analysis News Sony ups its annual Music revenue forecast by over $500m… during a pandemic Firm's recorded music streaming revenues grew by over $120m in the three months to end of September
Analysis News In tough year for merch sales, Bravado CEO exits Universal Music Group Stat Of The Week: Universal Music Group had its best ever quarter in Q3 2020, generating over $2bn... despite its merch division seeing revenues fall 44.4% year-on-year
Analysis News Universal Music Group just generated over a billion dollars from streaming in a single quarter… during a global pandemic Vivendi-owned company has already posted over $400m more from streaming in 2020 than it did at the same stage of 2019
Analysis News Does UFC’s new music app hint at the future of subscription streaming? Tuned Global says the world of branded music apps, serving niche audiences, could be a key growth driver for the industry in the years ahead
Analysis News Spotify has a patent for personality tracking technology – and it’s pretty creepy stuff "Future research could begin to link streaming behavior with brain scanning, genetic, and physiological data."
Analysis News Music piracy hasn’t gone away – it’s just changed shape New PRS report shows explosion in stream-ripping activity in market in past three years
Analysis Interviews 5 Things We Learned From Warner Music Group boss Steve Cooper at his Goldman Sachs interview WMG's Chief Executive was grilled today at the annual Goldman Sachs Communacopia event
Analysis TikTok and Spotify now neck-and-neck for users in Europe – but TikTok’s bigger in the US TikTok now has over 100m MAUs apiece in Europe and the United States
Analysis Blog DJ’ing Through the Pandemic: How the Electronic Dance Community is Leading the Industry into Livestreaming Beatport CEO, Robb McDaniels, on how the electronic music community is pushing a valuable new income stream for the business forward
Analysis Nearly a third of people in the US are using music streaming subscriptions Some 51% of the $10.3bn generated by streaming in 2019 was paid out to US labels and distributors
Analysis News Livestreaming is an obvious next move for Spotify. Here’s why it makes sense. The scene appears set for Daniel Ek's company to make its move into a burgeoning sector
Analysis News The pandemic has hit the major labels this year… but they’re still generating over $1m per hour from streaming What the majors' H1 2020 results tell us about their financial strength amid the year of coronavirus
Analysis News Despite pandemic, Germany’s recorded music revenues grew 4.8% to $856m in the first half of 2020 Audio streaming now claims more than two thirds of Germany's revenues