Music Business WorldwideMusic Business WorldwideMusic Business Worldwide In The News Analysis News Ed Sheeran and Justin Bieber currently have the most monthly listeners of all artists on SpotifyWith just over 84 million monthly listeners, Ed Sheeran remains comfortably in the lead, despite having not released a new studio album since October 2021 Interviews ‘I love the pressure, I love the deals, I love the win.’Adrian Sykes interviews Atlantic Records’ Rich Castillo about his experiences, ambitions, passions and gripes within the UK music industry… News MBW is launching a new interview series, Trailblazers, supported by BelieveLook out for our first interview in this series with Luis Sanchez – the CEO and founder of Mexico-based record label, AfinArte Analysis News From Spotify’s $7bn payout in 2021, to the global record industry’s $25.9bn revenues: It’s MBW’s Weekly Round-UpThe biggest stories from the past week – and why they matter Analysis News Sony spent an average of $91m on music catalog acquisitions every month over the past 10 monthsStat was recently revealed on an investor presentation by Sony Corp's Hiroki Totoki Analysis Every 2 hours, the major music companies now jointly generate more than $5 millionMBW crunches last year's fiscal numbers... and finds the majors piled on $4 billion in annual revenue News Rishi Malhotra, co-founder and former CEO of JioSaavn, joins podcast firm Luminary as CEODave Chappelle has also invested in Luminary News Downtown inks global music publishing deal with Alejandra Ghersi Rodriguez, aka ArcaArca has worked across multiple tracks on Kanye West’s Yeezus album, and produced/co-wrote on Bjork’s Vulnicara and Utopia albums1 2 … 23 Next
Analysis News Ed Sheeran and Justin Bieber currently have the most monthly listeners of all artists on SpotifyWith just over 84 million monthly listeners, Ed Sheeran remains comfortably in the lead, despite having not released a new studio album since October 2021
Interviews ‘I love the pressure, I love the deals, I love the win.’Adrian Sykes interviews Atlantic Records’ Rich Castillo about his experiences, ambitions, passions and gripes within the UK music industry…
News MBW is launching a new interview series, Trailblazers, supported by BelieveLook out for our first interview in this series with Luis Sanchez – the CEO and founder of Mexico-based record label, AfinArte
Analysis News From Spotify’s $7bn payout in 2021, to the global record industry’s $25.9bn revenues: It’s MBW’s Weekly Round-UpThe biggest stories from the past week – and why they matter
Analysis News Sony spent an average of $91m on music catalog acquisitions every month over the past 10 monthsStat was recently revealed on an investor presentation by Sony Corp's Hiroki Totoki
Analysis Every 2 hours, the major music companies now jointly generate more than $5 millionMBW crunches last year's fiscal numbers... and finds the majors piled on $4 billion in annual revenue
News Rishi Malhotra, co-founder and former CEO of JioSaavn, joins podcast firm Luminary as CEODave Chappelle has also invested in Luminary
News Downtown inks global music publishing deal with Alejandra Ghersi Rodriguez, aka ArcaArca has worked across multiple tracks on Kanye West’s Yeezus album, and produced/co-wrote on Bjork’s Vulnicara and Utopia albums
