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Take Five (the big five stories and data you need to know) October 14th 2019

Mark Mulligan

14 Oct 2019

CDbaby

Fortnite

fortnite blackhole

Fortnite black hole: In what may be the most audacious global games marketing stunt ever, Epic Games killed off Fortnite in Sunday’s end-of-season event , which one million people viewed...

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How Music Publishers Are Driving a Full Stack Revolution

Mark Mulligan

14 Oct 2019

anthem

avl

AWAL

Music publishing catalogues are gaining momentum fast as an asset class for institutional investments, with transactions ranging from large catalogue mergers and acquisitions (M&A) through to investment...

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Big Machine (Inadvertently) Just Did a Promo Ad for Label Services Deals

Mark Mulligan

1 Jul 2019

Amuse

awakl

Bandcamp

The sales of Taylor Swift’s former label Big Machine Records to Scooter Braun has resulted in an ugly spat that has been played out very publicly. First Braun enthused about acquiring a ‘brilliant’...

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PledgeMusic and Not-So-Glorious Failure

Mark Mulligan

10 May 2019

Artists direct

Bandcamp

blackberry

Pioneering fan funding platform PledgeMusic is now officially over, having entered administration (i.e. Chapter 11) in the UK reportedly owing its artists around $1 million and with little expectation...

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10 Trends That Will Reshape the Music Industry

Mark Mulligan

3 Apr 2019

23 capital

albums

Amuse

The IFPI has reported that global recorded music revenues have hit $19.1 billion, which means that MIDiA’sownestimatespublished in Marchwere within 1.6% of the actual results . This revenue growth story...

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