Analysis Daniel Ek talks paid-for promotion, podcasts and Spotify’s mission to become ‘the world’s No.1 audio platform’ What does Spotify's CEO have to say on key issues facing the company in 2020?
Analysis News The Grammys fallout gets more shocking every day – but how relevant is the show to the modern record business? MBW research suggests the famed 'Grammy bump' is weakening
Analysis US streams topped a trillion last year. But is a superstar recession looming? How, collectively, the world's biggest megastars are losing streaming market share in the United States
Analysis News Who’s the biggest music publisher in the world? Sony's music publishing companies turned over more than a billion dollars in the first nine months of 2019
Analysis News The major labels will generate over $14bn in 2019, as Warner bucks trend of streaming slowdown (just) Some very impressive news for Universal, Sony and Warner... and a warning sign?
Analysis More and more corporate brands are starting their own record labels (again). Will they last? Are brand-led labels a threat or an opportunity for music's incumbent powers?
Analysis Entertainment Is Getting Even Shorter, And Even Longer. What About The ‘Purgatory’ In The Middle? Cherie Hu tackles changing trends in audio-visual media
Analysis Taylor Swift’s Lover: A lightning rod for a record industry struggling to define its own success MBW takes a long, hard look at one of the biggest albums of the year so far
Analysis All Eyez on eOne: Is the music industry’s next big money sell-off imminent? After being snapped up for just $6.6m in 2013, is Death Row Records about to be acquired again?
Analysis Spotify is still adding more users across Europe and North America than in Asia, the Middle East and Africa combined SPOT is reaching less than 1.5% of its potential addressable market outside of Europe and the Americas
Analysis News The major labels are close to generating $1m from streaming every hour – but global growth is actually slowing down MBW analysis shows that global major label streaming revenue growth slowed by 19.1% YoY in the first six months of this year
Analysis News Live Nation has pushed concert prices up in the past 18 months.. and it’s paid off to the tune of $500m Live Nation has raised ticket prices, globally, for the best seats at amphitheater and arena shows by close to a third since Q1 2018
News The birth of Sony Music Group creates a joined-up superpower at the heart of the music business MBW estimates that SMG will turn over more than $5bn each year, including Japan
Analysis News Ed Sheeran’s No.6 Collaborations album isn’t a record-breaker – but it just cleared 100m Spotify streams in three days Album generated $500,000 for Sheeran and Atlantic Records on Spotify in its first three days of availability
Analysis After US slowdown, now audio streaming growth shrinks in the UK New BPI stats show decline in volume growth in world's third biggest market