Analysis News How Cardi B’s OnlyFans subscription could generate millions of dollars each month Running the numbers on why a superstar artist has signed up to a platform best known for NSFW content
Analysis News Why Warner Music Group just paid $85m for a company that makes Instagram memes What's behind the major's surprise buyout of IMGN Media?
Analysis News Tencent Music is racking up label deals, and going far deeper than licensing What Universal, Cooking Vinyl and Kobalt's new deals really mean in China
Analysis News Beggars Group revenues hit $83m in 2019, as XL Recordings generated over $50m "Whilst we are expecting a slowdown in certain channels [from COVID-19] – for example physical sales, synchronisation, and performance income – we expect streaming to be least affected."
Analysis Live Nation spent more on ticketing in Q2 than its fans did Michael Rapino discusses Live Nation's horrible Q2 - and the bright future in 2021 and beyond
Analysis News As Round Hill sues TuneCore for $33m, could war break out between publishers and indie distributors? Could Richard Busch's latest industry lawsuit inspire other indie publishers to take legal action?
Analysis News Warner streaming revenue jumped 11% in calendar Q2, but COVID-19 took its toll on major’s results Like its major music company rivals, Warner Music Group didn't have an easy time of things during the COVID-hit calendar Q2 period.
Analysis News Sony Music’s streaming revenues grew 15.6% in H1 2020 – but pandemic hit calendar Q2 period Streaming keeps moving up, but physical and licensing revenues hurt in three months to end of June
Analysis News TikTok users in the US overwhelmingly don’t want Donald Trump interfering with their use of the app MusicWatch survey reveals consumer sentiment towards US President's threat to ban the platform
Analysis News COVID-19 is hurting Universal Music Group’s revenues – but proving its profitability Why a quieter release slate at UMG – temporarily – might end up pleasing Tencent and its consortium
Analysis News Spotify thinks the Top 40 is over (and other key takeaways from its Q2 results) What we learned about Premium subs around the world, that Universal deal and SPOT's advertising woes
Analysis Blog Songwriters Deserve Freedom NMPA President David Israelite on a historic opportunity for modern US lawmakers to shift power away from Big Tech – and towards songwriters
Analysis Taylor Swift’s Folklore just made history on Spotify… and blew away the launch of her last album, Lover Folklore streamed over 50m times more on Spotify worldwide in its first three days than Lover
Analysis News 1 in 5 streams on Tencent Music platforms will be behind a paywall by the end of 2020 In China, where YouTube is blocked, TME is seeing its paywall strategy starting to reap financial benefits
Analysis 3 reasons why it might make sense… for Apple to buy TikTok Here, we explore the current backlash in the US against ByteDance-owned video sharing app, TikTok