Interviews Denis Ladegaillerie on AI, streaming royalty models, Believe’s game plan… and more The Believe founder and CEO joins MBW's Tim Ingham on the latest Music Business Worldwide podcast
News Believe says it’s distributed €700 million in royalties in APAC region, as it marks 10th anniversary of expansion into Asia Believe's strategy is to focus on developing local artists in China, India and Southeast Asia.
News Believe applauds Deezer’s action on ‘noise’ – but questions new ‘artist-centric’ royalty model’s impact on ‘rising artists’ Believe outlines its position on the new streaming model announced by Deezer and Universal
Analysis News Why Goldman Sachs believes that Spotify will remain the world’s dominant music streaming service in 2030 How much longer can Spotify hold on to its position as the world's biggest music streaming provider in terms of global paid-for subscriptions?
Analysis News Local artists’ market share is rising on music services, and 3 other things we learned from Denis Ladegaillerie on Believe’s latest earnings call Paris-headquartered music company published its financial results for the first half of 2023 on Wednesday (August 2)
News From Believe’s €415m half-year revenues to a new Dua Lipa lawsuit… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-up Five of the music industry's biggest stories from the past five days
Analysis News Believe revenues up 17.9% YoY in first half of 2023 to EUR €415.4 million Paris-headquartered music company Believe has published its financial results for the first half of 2023
News Believe, EMPIRE, Spotify, Amazon Music and more team up to form global task force ‘aimed at eradicating streaming fraud’ Digital music companies form 'Music Fights Fraud'
News Believe: We’ll block 100% AI-created music from being uploaded to streaming services via TuneCore The arrival of AI-generated music has triggered a number of concerns for the music industry
Analysis News Believe generated $213m in Q1, up 22.2% YoY Paris-headquartered music company Believe has published its financial results for Q1 2023 (the three months to end of March)
Analysis Analysts are starting to believe that AI may be an existential threat for the major labels. Is that overly pessimistic? Why the majors' market share is stronger than you might think – just as so-called virtual idols come to prominence in China
News From Warner’s lay-offs to Believe’s big buy… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up The biggest stories on MBW from the past seven days
News Trouble in Utopia? As firm offloads Sentric to Believe, tax debt looms and employees go unpaid in Sweden Trouble is brewing for the headquartered tech and artist services company in Sweden
News Believe blasts into publishing, buying $51m-valued Sentric Believe is acquiring full ownership of Sentric, which was held by Utopia since February 2022
Analysis News Believe has cash ‘firepower’ for acquisitions in 2023. What’s it going to buy? Company published its full-year financial results on March 15