Analysis After Spotify and Universal, could Tencent buy its way even further into the music business? Will $430bn-valued Tencent want a piece of Sony, Warner, BMG or Kobalt?
Analysis News Apple wanted to improve songwriter pay to $0.00091 per stream. Spotify and Google weren’t keen. Historical filings show why Spotify believes "lower royalty rates are critical" to the service's future
Analysis Taylor Swift’s Lover: A lightning rod for a record industry struggling to define its own success MBW takes a long, hard look at one of the biggest albums of the year so far
Analysis Interviews With $1bn in annual sales in BMG’s sights, Hartwig Masuch questions ‘irrational’ cost structure of traditional labels BMG's boss discusses his confidence in his own company... and his lack of confidence elsewhere
Analysis News Industry revenues in Japan, world’s second biggest recorded music market, didn’t grow in H1 2019 Audio subscription revenues made up 12.4% of Japan's total recorded music revenues in H1 2019; physical audio formats contributed 53.3%.
Analysis News How is Taylor Swift’s new album Lover performing on Spotify? Swift's new record trumps Ed Sheeran's latest LP (just) – but not Ariana Grande's
Analysis All Eyez on eOne: Is the music industry’s next big money sell-off imminent? After being snapped up for just $6.6m in 2013, is Death Row Records about to be acquired again?
Analysis Apple Music Connect: What could it have become if it wasn’t scrapped? Had Apple committed to its social media platform a little more, could it have taken on Insta and TikTok?
Analysis News What happened when Spotify raised its prices by 10% in Norway? Local market stats in Norway suggest risky move was a big success
Analysis News Why, in a post-Tencent/Universal world, the three major music companies are worth nearly $90bn MBW estimates that Universal, Sony and Warner are now collectively worth just shy of $89bn
Analysis Spotify is still adding more users across Europe and North America than in Asia, the Middle East and Africa combined SPOT is reaching less than 1.5% of its potential addressable market outside of Europe and the Americas
Analysis News The major labels are close to generating $1m from streaming every hour – but global growth is actually slowing down MBW analysis shows that global major label streaming revenue growth slowed by 19.1% YoY in the first six months of this year
Analysis News Pandora user base fell by 6.5m in Q2 – but parent SiriusXM posts record $2bn in quarterly revenues SiriusXM's radio platform ended Q2 with 29.3 million self-pay subscribers
Analysis News Lil Nas X helps drive Sony Music streaming revenues up 27% to $605m in last quarter Major labels now turning over more than $20m from streaming every single day
Analysis News Live Nation has pushed concert prices up in the past 18 months.. and it’s paid off to the tune of $500m Live Nation has raised ticket prices, globally, for the best seats at amphitheater and arena shows by close to a third since Q1 2018