Analysis Spotify needs to woo the boomers if it wants to keep growing in the US market A recent Edison Research report broke down why there may be a big opportunity for Daniel Ek's company amongst the 55-plus crowd in the States
Analysis Can Apple Solve Classical Music’s Streaming Problem? Ryan Blakeley, a Ph.D. in Musicology candidate at the Eastman School of Music, on whether Apple's brand new app can solve complex issues for the genre
Analysis As major label market share falls on Spotify, can we expect even more indie investment from the ‘Big Three’? As industry dynamics shift, are we going to see artist and label services divisions grow in importance for the majors?
Analysis News Reservoir Media has spent over $695m on catalogs to date (and 5 other things we learned about the company from its new Investor Factsheet) MBW fillets a new investor factsheet published by the publicly-traded firm
Analysis 38 million tracks on music streaming services were played ZERO times in 2022. (Or: why Spotify should take a leaf out of Elon Musk’s book.) Should Spotify, in a quest to improve its margin, start playing hardball with its least successful artists?
Analysis News Spotify’s mission statement is preposterous. Its latest announcements prove it. Drilling behind the numbers released by Spotify last week, to discover the hard truth
Analysis News Scooter Braun and HYBE want to build a ‘major’ music label. How will their $300m bet on Quality Control play into that aim? An in-depth look at the biggest music industry deal of 2023 so far
Analysis News Is the slowdown in big-money music catalog deals officially over? Moves from Hipgnosis, Shamrock, Primary Wave, and a big brewing Michael Jackson story have all pumped excitement into 2023's M&A narrative
Analysis Is TikTok about to pull off a heist on the music industry? Could indie tracks and AI music successfully replace major label music on the platform?
Analysis News Over-spending and under-pricing: Spotify’s commercial missteps have come back to haunt it. A close look at some of the factors that led Daniel Ek to slash 500 jobs from his worldwide headcount this week
Analysis News Why ingesting 100,000 tracks a day may not prove sustainable for Spotify’s business in the long-term. Why it's worth keeping an eye on Spotify's hosting costs as over 100k tracks a day hit streaming platforms
Analysis News Robert Kyncl’s to-do list. The new Warner Music Group boss may have these queries on his mind when he joins the music company in January
Analysis News Why the music industry is headed for a tussle with TikTok over royalties New financial data and comments from Sir Lucian Grainge suggest that tension is mounting over TikTok's payouts to the music industry
Analysis J.P. Morgan just wrote a glowing endorsement of Hipgnosis Songs Fund. Here’s why. The investment giant just gave a thundering vote of confidence in HSF's business, following a recent flurry of business media scrutiny
Analysis News Could Spotify’s locked audiobooks model be a new way for artists to make money on its platform? Could Spotify's locked play button model used for audiobooks be applied to artist content?