Luminate In The News

Luminate acquires artist data identification service Quansic

France-headquartered Quansic claims to operate the world’s largest artist identification database

Morgan Wallen signs global publishing deal with Warner Chappell Music

Wallen will also have the ability to sign songwriters in partnership with WCM

78% of small-to-midsize businesses in the US currently misuse personal streaming accounts to play music to their customers. It’s costing the music industry $1.38 billion per year.

Ola Sars highlights an important opportunity in publicly-played music for rightsholders

With India in the running to overtake the US as the biggest music streaming market (by volume), Believe swoops for local ‘powerhouse’ catalog

Believe has also acquired WHM's YouTube channel

From Spotify’s ‘superfan clubs’ to Apple Music’s spatial audio royalty boost… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up

The five biggest stories to hit our headlines over the past seven days…

As ‘artist-centric’ nobbles DIY aggregators, is a big-money ‘middle class’ distribution acquisition inevitable in 2024?

Could any of the three majors, looking for a swift market share boost, execute a humdinger of an acquisition in the rest of 2024?

India’s Tips Industries generated $7.78m in calendar Q4, up 27% YoY

Tips’ rising numbers come amid surging growth in the Indian music market

India could become the world’s biggest music streaming market by volume in 2024 – overtaking the USA

Total on-demand music streams in India were up by nearly half a billion in 2023 vs. 2022, according to Luminate