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The music industry obsesses over artist performance statistics – where are label performance statistics?

Blog post by Keith Jopling

10 Apr 2023

One of the watchwords in labels recently has been a focus on the ‘value proposition’ for artists, and it is easy to see why. In the streaming and social age, where independent self-releasing artists...

Should streaming take a cue from TikTok’s revamped creator program?

Blog post by Tatiana Cirisano

23 Feb 2023

music streaming

Spotify

music industry

A year ago, VidCon co-founder and vlogger Hank Green posted a viral YouTube video lambasting TikTok’s $1 billion Creator Fund, claiming it delivered chump change to videos with millions of views. The...

At the Grammys and Super Bowl, the last hurrah of the mainstream era

Blog post by Tatiana Cirisano

14 Feb 2023

music industry

record labels

Music creators

Rihanna’s performance at the Super Bowl LVII over the weekend was remarkable for several reasons, but most of all was that she had not performed a show at this scale in seven long years. “The wait...

With its Australia experiment, TikTok gives the music industry the ultimate test

Blog post by Tatiana Cirisano

9 Feb 2023

TikTok

social media

independent music

Licensing negotiations between platforms and the music industry come down to one question: which side needs the other more? The more that TikTok needs hit music to attract users, the more leverage the...

Could AI generate music’s Instagram moment?

Blog post by Tatiana Cirisano

31 Jan 2023

music streaming

music industry

social media

Pop quiz: Is the hit ‘Kill Bill’ sung by SZA or Ariana Grande? The answer is, of course, SZA, but TikTok users could be forgiven for any confusion. An artificial-intelligence-generated version sung...

What ChatGPT can do for independent music

Blog post by Tatiana Cirisano

21 Dec 2022

music industry

independent music

independent artists

Everyone is talking about ChatGPT , the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot that could potentially change the music industry. While the conversation has mainly focused on how ChatGPT can help with music...

The cost of music streaming just went up — here is what must come next

Blog post by Tatiana Cirisano

3 Nov 2022

music streaming

music industry

apple music

It is finally happening. Apple Music raised its music streaming subscription price for the first time ever, following price rises from the likes of YouTube and Deezer, and Spotify indicates that it will...

YouTube's secret weapon for overtaking Spotify

Blog post by Tatiana Cirisano

22 Sep 2022

creator economy

Music creators

YouTube

YouTube has not been quiet about its ambitions to overtake Spotify as the music industry’s top revenue driver by 2025. The clock is ticking, and although YouTube is the most popular platform for music...

The future of marketing and A&R is all about scenes

Blog post by Tatiana Cirisano

15 Sep 2022

music industry

music streaming

fragmented fandom

Today’s era of hyper-fragmentation raises all sorts of questions for the music industry, in particular marketing and A&R departments. In a landscape where it is harder than ever to have a mainstream...

What happens when content supersedes the creator?

Blog post by Tatiana Cirisano

25 Aug 2022

social media

creator tools

creator economy

It is becoming increasingly clear that the future of the user interface looks like a TikTok feed. Companies from Meta to Spotify and Amazon have tested TikTok-like feeds that are focused on discovery,...

From 8-bit to fantasy: Proms’ focus on gaming underscores its cultural relevance

Blog post by Sam Griffin

10 Aug 2022

Proms

gaming

Fandom

After the humble beginnings of the first melodic loops from NAMCO’s Rally X , the cultural symphony of music, video, and games has since matured toHildur Guðnadóttir and Sam Slater’s recent score...

Beatport’s LabelRadar acquisition is the latest sign of the platforms era

Blog post by Tatiana Cirisano

22 Jul 2022

Beatport

record labels

music industry

This week, online music marketplace Beatport acquired LabelRadar, a service that streamlines the demo submission process for artists and labels. Following previous strategic acquisitions, the deal represents...

MIDiA music forecasts: the new era of growth

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

14 Jul 2022

music forecasts

music revenues

music industry

MIDiA has just published its latest music forecasts, available to clients in full here . Here are some of the highlights. 2021 was a huge year for the recorded music business with retail values up 23%...

A counterculture music industry is emerging — welcome to the platform era

Blog post by Tatiana Cirisano

5 Jul 2022

music industry

Major labels

record labels

What do TikTok’s distribution tool , Universal Music Group’s samples marketplace , and Snoop Dogg’s virtual marijuana have in common? On the surface, not much. But beneath, these news headlines are...

Reflections on the music industry at NFT.NYC

Blog post by Tatiana Cirisano

23 Jun 2022

cryptocurrency

NFT

record labels

At the fourth annual NFT.NYC conference in New York, the sentiment fell somewhere between faint excitement and “so this is still a thing, right?” Unlike this time last year, when the music industry...

Why today’s music creators are no longer playing the fame game

Blog post by Tatiana Cirisano

16 Jun 2022

music streaming

Music creators

creator economy

Since the music industry’s beginnings, success has been tied to fame and fortune. But as more and more artists grow dissatisfied with the harsh economics of streaming, their strategies are changing —...

The record label addiction to virality is about the attention recession, too

Blog post by Tatiana Cirisano

26 May 2022

social media

Content Creators

creator economy

In a painfully-of-the-moment twist of irony, Halsey went viral on TikTok this week for speaking out about the pressure to do just that. “Basically I have a song that I love that I wanna release ASAP,...

Is TikTok becoming a record label? The question misses the point

Blog post by Tatiana Cirisano

18 May 2022

music streaming

music industry

Fandom

Every time TikTok does anything that seems to hedge on record label territory, someone inevitably asks the question: is TikTok turning into a record label? Cue the eye-rolls from the music industry. No...

What Snapchat is getting right about the future (and why music should pay attention)

Blog post by Tatiana Cirisano

6 May 2022

music industry

social media

snapchat

The music industry has spent the last few years studying the ins and outs of new platforms like TikTok and Twitch, with good reason. But the decade-old Snapchat increasingly appears to be social media’s...

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...

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