News 3 things the major labels can learn from Big Hit, home of BTS Lessons from Bang Si-hyuk's comments at Big Hit's Corporate Briefing last week
Analysis News Why Warner Music Group just paid $85m for a company that makes Instagram memes What's behind the major's surprise buyout of IMGN Media?
Analysis Taylor Swift’s Folklore just made history on Spotify… and blew away the launch of her last album, Lover Folklore streamed over 50m times more on Spotify worldwide in its first three days than Lover
Analysis 3 reasons why it might make sense… for Apple to buy TikTok Here, we explore the current backlash in the US against ByteDance-owned video sharing app, TikTok
Analysis US publishers pulled in $3.7bn during 2019 – just over half what record labels made David Israelite and the NMPA break down the performance of members last year
Analysis Hipgnosis, with a catalog worth nearly $1bn, is becoming less reliant on modern pop hits New trading update from Merck Mercuriadis' company reveals much about its performance in the past year
Analysis News Is Len Blavatnik about to complete the shrewdest deal in the history of the record business? The case for Len Blavatnik having made the smartest acquisitive move in record industry history
Analysis News Goldman Sachs just cut its 2020 paid music streaming revenue forecast by $2.2bn… but the future still looks bright Adjustments to the financial giant's forecasts say much about the future of the music business at large
Analysis News Michael Rapino talks cost-cutting, fan-less concerts, and pressing pause on Live Nation’s big Mexico deal The five things you need to know about the live giant's Q1 earnings
Analysis Warner Music Group boss Steve Cooper talks COVID-19, streaming subscriptions… and that delayed IPO MBW delves deeper into Warner's calendar Q1 results
Analysis News Confirmed: Music streaming WAS down last week amid Coronavirus quarantine… but not on YouTube MBW takes a look at streaming across the globe, the US, Italy and the UK
Analysis News Screw you, Coronavirus. At least music’s streaming business is still booming. How are music streaming services faring in a COVID-19-hit world?
Analysis What the US record industry should fear about its future – and what it deserves to celebrate Netflix, vinyl, streaming and Spotify's share of revenues all feature in MBW's review of the USA market
Analysis It’s happened: The major labels are now generating over $1m every hour from streaming MBW analysis shows that Universal saw recorded music streaming growth in excess of $600m in 2019
Analysis YouTube says it paid the music industry over $3bn last year – equivalent to 20% of its annual ad revenue. Is that good? On balance, YouTube looks likely to have just become the global music industry's second biggest streaming partner