Tatiana Cirisano

Tatiana is Vice President of Music Strategy at MIDiA. Prior to this, she served as a music business reporter for Billboard, where she wrote award-winning industry analysis as well as cover stories on artists like Tame Impala and Alicia Keys. Throughout her work she is dedicated to publishing fresh perspectives that drive the music industry forward, with an emphasis on fandom and consumer behaviour.

BE THE CHANGE – Women In Music 2022

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Hanna Kahlert, Srishti Das and Tatiana Cirisano

May 2022

Music

The last two years of pandemic-driven disruption in the music industry may just have created a window of opportunity for real change in the fight for gender equality. The next generation of women music...

The pandemic catalysed a streaming business model reckoning. Is the live sector next?

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Tatiana Cirisano

27 Apr 2022

The news is everywhere: concerts are back. Coachella heralded the return of a roaring festival season, hundreds of acts are back on the road, and Live Nation says it is expecting a record year. But other...

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Elon’s Twitter bid is a warning: creators are building on rented land

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Tatiana Cirisano

22 Apr 2022

Content Creators

Creator economy

In the creator economy, creators earn money by going direct-to-fan, cutting out traditional middlemen. But it is a misconception that this model gets rid of middlemen entirely. Rather, platforms are becoming...

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Why the remix challenge is primed for a revival

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Tatiana Cirisano

14 Apr 2022

music marketing

Remix challenges have been part of the record label toolbox for more than a decade. Artists let contestants purchase or earn song stems; then the artist and fans vote on the best remixes. The idea is simple:...

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Is the catalogue acquisition market betting tomorrow's success on yesterday's metrics?

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Tatiana Cirisano

5 Apr 2022

music industry investment

music catalogue

The music industry spent $5.3 billion on music catalogue acquisitions in 2021, according to MIDiA's most recent market report , not counting another $6.7 billion that was invested into music companies...

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Music catalogue acquisition
Picking apart the $5 billion competition for icons

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Kriss Thakrar and Tatiana Cirisano

March 2022

investment

Music streaming

music catalogue

A variety of economic factors and stock market volatility during the coronavirus pandemic helped establish music as an attractive asset class for institutional investors. With labels, publishers, institutional...

Kilometre Music Group
How Kilometre Music Group is finding a niche in a competitive market

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Kriss Thakrar and Tatiana Cirisano

March 2022

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Spotify’s Loud and Clear is about fandom, not royalties

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Tatiana Cirisano

24 Mar 2022

Streaming Music

Streaming Royalties

Spotify has updated its Loud & Clear website exploring how it pays royalties to rightsholders, and it claims that more artists are earning income on the platform than ever before. Many in the music...

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What the music industry can learn from play-to-earn gaming

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Tatiana Cirisano

16 Mar 2022

Should entertainment fans be compensated for their fandom? Play-to-earn (P2E), a newly popular school of thought in the gaming space, says yes. People usually play video games for pure enjoyment, but in...

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Why TikTok is primed to become the next-generation music company

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Tatiana Cirisano

10 Mar 2022

By now, TikTok’s impact on popular music is well-established. The platform routinely catapults songs to hit status, and it has become a regular part of digital marketing campaigns. But behind the scenes,...

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If Web3 is so forward-thinking, why is it so male dominated?

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Tatiana Cirisano

28 Feb 2022

gender equality

Strike up a five-minute conversation with someone in the Web3 space, and any combination of the words “forward-thinking”, “revolutionary”, and “equitable” is bound to come up. Many proponents...

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Music consumer survey, Q3 2021
A new generation leans forward

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Tatiana Cirisano

February 2022

Creators

Radio

radio audiences

As streaming subscriptions rise and music increasingly competes with other forms of media for consumers’ limited attention spans, lean-back listening activities are taking precedence over those which...

Audio audiences
Steady change

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Mark Mulligan, Tatiana Cirisano and Annie Langston

February 2022

Radio

radio audiences

music radio

This report is the first preview of our new research vertical for Audio, to be formally launched later this year. : Podcasts reinvigorated the audio market, bringing with it the promise of a ‘Netflix...

Kanye’s Stem Player release is a real-time experiment in superfan targeting

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Tatiana Cirisano

23 Feb 2022

monetising fandom

Music streaming

Never one to follow tradition, Kanye West has announced that his next album, Donda 2 , will not be available on streaming services. Instead, he will release it exclusively on the Stem Player (a handheld...

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Music creators
Slicing the funnel

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Mark Mulligan, Kriss Thakrar and Tatiana Cirisano

February 2022

YouTube

SoundCloud

TuneCore

Streaming enabled the rise of the independent artist and then the rise of the music creator. The promise of the long tail finally appeared to be realised. But the pandemic’s disruption of live music...

Music artists are startups, and Silicon Valley is knocking

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Tatiana Cirisano

15 Feb 2022

music investment

Music artists are startups, and Silicon Valley is knocking With big-name catalogue sales at one end, and alternative music funding at the other, the music and finance businesses are increasingly intertwined....

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What the boom in young artist catalogue sales says about the music market

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Tatiana Cirisano

11 Feb 2022

music catalogue

music catalogue M+A

Streaming Music

The catalogue-sales boom is one of the most talked about music trends of the past two years. Most of the conversation has, understandably, revolved around aging icons, like Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen,...

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When will we reach peak subscription?

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Tatiana Cirisano

31 Jan 2022

Creator economy

Earlier this month, Instagram and TikTok both began testing subscription models where users offer their followers paid access to exclusive content, following in the footsteps of platforms like Twitch,...

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State of the live streaming nation
Reframing the format post-lockdown

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Tatiana Cirisano

January 2022

Consumer behaviour

live music

Gaming

The loss of touring income during the global pandemic spurred fast growth in a previously niche concert live streaming ecosystem. However, as the world begins to re-open and physical touring resumes, the...

Twenty One Pilots
How Twenty One Pilots’ Takeøver Tour created virtual-physical harmony

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Tatiana Cirisano

January 2022

Live entertainment

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