Analysis Blog News How to justify Bruce Springsteen’s skyrocketing ticket prices MBW Reacts is a series of short comment pieces from the MBW team
Analysis News On SoundCloud’s new deal with Warner Music (or why the debate over Fan-Powered Royalties is more complicated than ‘fairness’). A bold and brave agreement between two forward-thinking companies. But can FPR ever go 'mainstream'?
Analysis News So… how much did TikTok actually pay the music industry from its $4bn in revenues last year? Is the music business sleepwalking into a generational mistake in its deals with TikTok?
Analysis News Kate Bush is the world’s biggest independent artist right now. She’s owning it. Kate Bush owns her recorded music rights. So do many other superstar artists – young and old.
News The Great Rock N(FT) Roll Swindle Eamonn Forde raises some concerns over a potential music biz bubble – in which the non-fungible get filthy and furious…
Analysis News Kate Bush had the biggest record in the UK last week, but she’s not No.1 on the Official Chart. This is a watershed moment for a music industry struggling to understand the meaning of ‘new’. Kate Bush has been robbed in her home nation. The music industry must learn lessons from what it says.
Analysis News Spotify’s share price crash is a shocker for Daniel Ek. It won’t have best pleased music’s biggest companies. MBW crunches the numbers on Universal and Sony's ownership stakes in Daniel Ek's green machine
Analysis Spotify faces its most crucial earnings call yet. Here are the 3 difficult questions MBW would be asking. After Netflix's shocker of a Q1, all eyes are on Spotify's equivalent fiscal announcement. Here's what MBW would ask Daniel Ek.
Analysis News Spotify is paying $310m to Barcelona for a sponsorship. According to our calculations, that’s more than it’s ever paid an artist in royalties. Spotify announced its big deal yesterday. It's worth 89.08 billion streams.
Analysis Snoop Dogg is building a crypto empire, one NFT at a time MBW chronicles Calvin Broadus Jr's impressive foray into the NFT space, and the rewards he's reaping
Analysis The major music companies are in a race to hire the best Web3 talent – before media’s biggest companies beat them to it Interesting developments at Universal, Sony, and Warner in recent weeks hint at the impact Web3 will have on music in the months ahead
Analysis News If you wanted to know why Sony Music bought AWAL… this is why The signing of girl in red to Columbia could be a key case study in the Sony-AWAL story
Analysis News Spotify’s valuation is half the size it was a year ago. Could a Big Tech titan make a shock acquisition bid? It couldn't really happen... could it?
Analysis News Neil Young’s Spotify exodus is a test case for artists who dare question music industry dogma. Crack by crack, Neil Young's protest could cause an earthquake at the center of Spotify's business
Analysis News Inflation is skyrocketing. Surely Spotify must finally put up its $9.99 monthly price. MBW Reacts: Our team's music biz-centric take on soaring inflation in the US