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UMG, Endel, and the case for labels in the AI space

Blog post by Tatiana Cirisano

1 Jun 2023

Universal Music Group

Warner Music Group

record labels

The flood of new music created using artificial intelligence (AI) will further erode major label market share, and some label executives’ recent comments about the value of human-made music seem to put...

Music industry earnings 2021: Riding the wave

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

6 May 2022

Streaming Music

record labels

live music

Universal music’s Q1 2022 earnings showed continued growth but a noticeable slowdown in streaming growth, with streaming revenues up 12% year-on-year (YoY) in USD term compared to a growth of 35% one...

Music subscriber market shares Q2 2021

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

18 Jan 2022

subscriber market shares

streaming market shares

market shares

MIDiA’s annual music subscriber market shares report is now available here (see below for more details of the report). Here are some of the key findings. The global base of music subscribers continues...

Music market shares: independent labels and artists are even bigger than you thought

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

3 Dec 2021

independent labels

record label market shares

Major labels

It has been a long time since the music industry has been in such good shape. So long, in fact, that there are not too many executives left who worked through the pre-crash days. 2021 was the year in which...

Global music subscriber market shares Q1 2021

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

9 Jul 2021

music subscribers

subscriber market shares

Streaming

The music industry’s growing obsession with declining ARPU will continue to colour the outlook for the global streaming market in revenue terms, but the positive driver of this equation is the rapid...

Independents Grew Fastest on Spotify in 2019, But There’s a Twist

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

28 Apr 2020

independent artists

independent labels

Major labels

Tomorrow (Wednesday 29 th April) Spotify announces its Q1 2020 results, at which point we will find out whether it had a COVID-bounce like Netflix did ( adding 15.8 million subscribers in Q1 ) or whether...

Spotify May Already Be Too Big for the Labels to Stop it Competing With Them

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

26 Oct 2018

artists direct

independent record labels

indie labels

Spotify’s Daniel Ek is betting big on developing a ‘two sided marketplace’ for music . With the company’s market cap on a downward trend despite strong growth metrics , Ek might find himself having...