DistroKid In The News

TikTok launches ‘Artist Impact Program’, inks several distribution deals to connect artists with brands

TikTok inks global distribution deals with Believe, DistroKid, Vydia and more to 'fuel the pipeline of talent and artist-driven music' on its Commercial Music Library

News

DIY music distributor DistroKid launches mobile app

App, launched on Thursday May 4, is initially only available for iPhone

Analysis

As major label market share falls on Spotify, can we expect even more indie investment from the ‘Big Three’?

As industry dynamics shift, are we going to see artist and label services divisions grow in importance for the majors?

Analysis

The major record companies release around 3,900 tracks every day. Their problem? That’s a drop in the ocean.

The major music companies release only 4% of the daily deluge of tracks hitting audio and video streaming services, new data shows.

Analysis Blog

gamma, Downtown, Utopia, and the rise of the ‘Inside-Out Majors’

The following op/ed comes from UK-based Hunter Giles (pictured inset), who co-founded and leads Infinite Catalog, a royalty accounting software + service company.

Interviews

TikTok, indie tracks, AI, and tech-driven ‘efficiencies’: Robert Kyncl’s first earnings call at WMG wasn’t short on punchiness

MBW digests the new Warner boss's first-ever earnings call

News

Major record company market share on Spotify fell again in 2022, as indie tracks flooded the service

Companies including TuneCore and parent Believe are eating into market share that was traditionally held by larger companies

Analysis News

5 numbers that will come to define the music business in 2023

MBW picks out a handful of statistics underpinning some of the red-hot issues bubbling away as we type...