Analysis Blog ‘Clustering reduces the risk of the wrong rights owners being paid and assists in making performer line-ups as complete and consistent as possible.’ PPL’s Chief Information Officer Mark Douglas examines the potential for ‘clustering’ to help solve problems ranging from accuracy to fraud…
Analysis Hyper space: when A&R overreaches itself The following op/ed comes from long-time music industry journalist Eamonn Forde
Analysis Carving up, or growing the pie? Annabella Coldrick, Chief Executive of the UK-based Music Managers Forum, discusses the major record companies' share of the streaming pie
Analysis Blog If you are terrified about AI music stealing your audiences, what does that say about your faith in your own music? The following op/ed comes from long-time music industry journalist Eamonn Forde
Analysis Blog ‘We must make life fair for creators, or we will lose the next Paul McCartney.’ CISAC President Bjorn Ulvaeus looks ahead to next week’s CISAC General Assembly in Mexico
Analysis Blog Closing the book on ‘storytelling’. Eamonn Forde on why music marketing's favorite buzzword is so often misplaced
Analysis Blog Do The Write Thing. Merck Mercuriadis, founder and CEO of Hipgnosis, writes a message to the industry on the day of the Ivor Novellos
Analysis Blog TikTok isn’t where ‘stars get started’. Stars start themselves. Music Venue Trust CEO Mark Davyd on the claims made about artist development by digital platforms, and the reality
Analysis The music industry freaked out over ‘fake Drake’. But are these AI tracks just the latest take on remixing? Jessica Powell, CEO of stem music company Audioshake, offers a different perspective on the music biz story of the moment
Analysis The algorithm is your new boss More so in music than any business, a dollar is worth more when it’s made than when it’s paid, says Will Page
Analysis Music-generating AI: Official art? Or artificial? Nick Eziefula, partner at Simkins, on the legal questions for the music biz raised by 'fake Drake' et al
Analysis Does YouTube owe Bad Bunny an explanation – or a bigger check? Bill Werde juxtaposes record numbers for Latin music in the US with YouTube's historical payouts to music rightsholders
Analysis Thoughts on Ghostwriter, Drake, AI… and why the music industry shouldn’t panic Andy Chatterley gives his perspective on the story the whole business is talking about
Analysis Songwriters and artists refuse to be pitted against each other. David Israelite, President & CEO of the National Music Publishers' Association (NMPA), on what songwriters get paid from concert ticket sales in the US market
Analysis Blog Why the power of AI may hold the key to distributing wealth throughout the music industry (Part 1) This MBW op/ed comes from Ran Geffen, founder of XR connect development agency OMR and CEO of Amusica Song Management in Israel.