Analysis Down The Skibidi Toilet: Why Universal Music Group’s ‘Project Timeout’ is hitting TikTok with endless copyright takedown requestsThere is a lot to explain here....
Analysis Universal Music Group’s recent batch of international deals highlight 5 global trends to watch in 2024From Latin Music to a booming Chinese market, these are the trends to watch out for in 2024.
Analysis Hipgnosis Songs Fund’s assets are now valued at $690 million less than they were before. Blackstone must be licking its lips.JP Morgan analyst says the likelihood of a Blackstone takeover just increased, thanks to Shot Tower's re-valuation of HSF
Analysis So… maybe don’t bet your house on Universal Music Group and TikTok reaching a deal anytime soonUMG and Sir Lucian Grainge today doubled down on their borderline disgust with the licensing offer/s they've received from TikTok in recent months
Analysis TikTok vs. Universal Music Group: The Cremation of Once-Cuddlesome RelationsSurveying the landscape of a battle between music's biggest rightsholder and ByteDance's video juggernaut
Analysis 3 observations on… Universal Music Group’s $240m bet on Chord Music (and the real story, Dundee Partners)Looking underneath the hood of today's big story in the music business
Analysis As Warner Music Group posts its biggest ever quarter… WMG boss Robert Kyncl says he’s ‘confident’ that Universal and TikTok will resolve their spatKyncl is planning 'as much automation as possible,' and more lobbying for higher prices at music streaming services
Analysis Could HYBE’s Weverse offer a template for Universal Music Group’s courting of ‘superfans’ in 2024?UMG has been experimenting with HYBE and Weverse since back in 2020. What's it learned?
Analysis TikTok’s biggest headache in its fight with Universal Music Group is UMG’s publishing catalog (and 2 other observations on the feud the whole music industry is talking about)What's really going on behind the scenes of music's big Grammy Week fall-out
Analysis 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?
Analysis Primary Wave could buy a ‘music platform’. Here’s 4 ideas about what it might acquire…Company teased that it was targeting a music platform last week. Which areas will it be considering?
Analysis Observations on Universal Music Group’s 2024 restructuring programThe 'why', the 'where', and the 'how many' of the music biz's biggest story of the moment under the microscope
Analysis News 158 million tracks had 1,000 plays or fewer on music streaming services last year. 45 million had no plays at all.The number of tracks with no plays on audio streaming platforms jumped by 7.7 million over the past year, according to a new Luminate report
Analysis News Andreessen Horowitz’s thoughts on AI shows what the music industry will be up against in 2024The company's views place it squarely on the opposite side of the issue from much of the music industry
Analysis Here’s exactly how Spotify’s new 1,000 annual streams royalty policy works…Spotify is introducing a significant update to the way it calculates recorded royalties next year