Analysis Blog Music streaming today is like an all-you-can-eat buffet. How much could artists earn with a ‘free market’ model? The following op/ed comes from Roneil Rumburg, Co-Founder and CEO of blockchain-powered music platform Audius
Analysis Blog Three power couples to watch in 2024 MBW Views is a series of exclusive op/eds from eminent music industry people… with something to say. The following op/ed comes from Ran Geffen Levy
Analysis Blog On… ‘industry plants’ and the false comfort of conspiracy theories In the following op/ed, long-time music industry journalist Eamonn Forde explores, and tears apart, the notion of the 'industry plant'
Analysis Blog The UK music industry’s next milestone and how we get there MBW Views is a series of op/eds from eminent music industry people… with something to say. The following comes from Kim Bayley, CEO of the UK's digital entertainment and retail association ERA.
Analysis Why indie record labels are backing Universal Music Group’s action on TikTok. Dr Richard James Burgess MBE on why A2IM and its labels are supporting Universal's stance on the matter
Analysis The music sync industry is headed for an iceberg. It needs an upgrade. Sync veteran Tom Stingemore on why his industry is operating inefficiently and needs to change
Analysis Google was once at the vanguard of ethical AI music development. That may no longer be the case. Ed Newton-Rex gives his opinion on Google' experimentation with music and generative AI
Analysis The music industry is learning Hollywood’s lessons about the power of franchises Would the music industry do well to throw marketing budget behind slightly-forgotten artists from the 'naughts', wonders Tim Ingham
Analysis Mark Douglas on AI: ‘We need our legislators to spend less time worrying about killer robots of the future, and really focus on the harms that have already taken place.’ PPL's Chief Information Officer highlights huge problems and gaping legislative holes at the heart of the AI revolution
Analysis Blog The hardest-working words in the music business in 2023 Eamonn Forde on the words that the music biz has been addicted to in the past 12 months – and what they really mean
Analysis Robert Kyncl: The EU shouldn’t miss the opportunity to include meaningful transparency and record-keeping obligations in the AI Act The Warner Music Group boss gives a strong message on responsible AI ahead of crucial lawmaking decision
Analysis The Weighting Is The Hardest Part A change in Billboard Chart reporting threatens to marginalize vinyl records and the stores who sell them, says Nabil Ayers
Analysis Why I just resigned from my job in generative AI. Ed Newton-Rex has quit his role at Stability AI. In an exclusive op-ed, he shares why.
Analysis We Can Wipe It Out: The Beatles’ ‘greatest hits’ as a catalogue palimpsest Eamonn Forde on the continual adjustments and tweaks being made to the Fab Four's Greatest Hits packages
Analysis The music industry obsesses over the wrong kind of ‘discovery’. MBW founder, Tim Ingham, on the strange reasons we fall in love with artists, and how hard that is to measure