Analysis Netflix is going ‘wobbly’ without fresh hits. The music industry is learning to live with the same thing. Netflix is relying on classic movies, rather than new ones. Meanwhile, the music industry is saying: "Hasta la vista, ARPU."
News PortalDisc App is a new a ‘hyper-localized and hyper-targeted’ music streaming service in Chile Platform offers 130,000 Chilean songs from 300 national labels and more than 7,000 independent artists,
News Songtradr acquires Pretzel, which provides DMCA-proof music for Twitch and YouTube livestreamers It's Songtradr's third acquisition in the past six months alone
News Why are Paul McCartney, Led Zeppelin, Sting, Chris Martin and Stevie Nicks demanding the UK government ‘fixes streaming’? Page and Plant reunited at last... in letter calling for 50% of 'lean back' streaming royalties to be paid direct to artists
News Warner Music Asia inks exclusive deal with Esports Player League (ESPL) Deal will allow ESPL to embed Warner Music songs into its platform
News TuneCore launches operations in Southeast Asia, headed up by Cyrus Chen Platform is now present in 14 countries on 4 continents
Analysis News Apple Music just made a lot of claims about what it pays artists. Let’s take a closer look. A new email from Apple has revealed some big numbers, and a couple of digs at Spotify. MBW gives its take.
People: Michael Weissman Michael Weissman joined SoundCloud from Vimeo in 2017, and became SoundCloud's CEO in January 2021
Interviews Why SoundCloud has the music business right where it wants it. Michael Weissman, CEO of SoundCloud, answers MBW's questions on payout models, tipping, and where the music industry's headed
News Poo Bear inks JV with Def Jam for his label Bearthday Music He has amassed nearly 300 major songwriting and production credits
Analysis News TikTok users watch the app for an average of 89 minutes per day – and there’s 732m of them worldwide Leaked pitch deck reveals a slew of the Bytedance app's key numbers in 2021
Analysis ‘Popularity is by far the biggest determinant of success in streaming, just as it has been for every recorded format before it.’ The BPI's Geoff Taylor puts across his point of view on the UK's current streaming inquiry
Blog How to fix streaming without wrecking music… This MBW blog comes from Paul Pacifico, CEO of the UK's Association of Independent Music (AIM)
News Germany’s recorded music revenues grew 9% to $2bn last year, thanks to streaming’s lockdown boom Streaming surges ahead in Germany, as CD continues to slide
News Clubhouse users can now pay money to creators, and the app gets 0% of it Invite-only social app has launched a direct payments feature