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Is live-stream composition the new formula for a hit album?

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Ashleigh Millar

1 Oct 2021

We are no stranger to TikTok and its impact on the music industry, which is changing the structure of the business one viral video at a time. Artists and composers are flocking to the innovative social media app with hopes of finding musical success, similar to that of 24KGoldn and Nathan Evans.

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Why music underpins the culture of our ‘new normal’

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Hanna Kahlert

22 Jul 2021

Media and Marketing

Audience Insight

The recent UK DCMS committee findings on streaming – namely, that artists should receive a greater share of streaming revenues – is merely one facet of the growing pains of a music industry reshaped by streaming and having evolved, willingly or not, into a digital-first proposition.

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Redefining global sounds through local cultures – the role of homegrown services in emerging markets

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Srishti Das

6 Jul 2021

emerging markets

Music streaming

In developed music markets, streaming was an outcome of the recorded music industry. Creators and labels released music, and streaming services created a simpler experience for listeners in already mature markets.

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Spotify pushes prices up, but do not expect dramatic effects

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Mark Mulligan

27 Apr 2021

spotify pricing

streaming pricing

Spotify finally announced a significant price increase, raising prices in the UK and some of Europe, with the US set to follow suit. The increases affect Family, Duo and Student plans. The fact that streaming pricing has remained locked at $9.

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T-Series to IPRS: Signs of a maturing market?

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Srishti Das

9 Apr 2021

Music streaming

Music publishing

The Indian Performance Rights Society (IPRS) finally controls the majority of publishing market share in India, after the mammoth music label and film production company T-Series registered itself as a member.

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When women don’t make music: The sunset of Indian Folk

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Hanna Kahlert

29 Mar 2021

indian folk music

MIDiA recently released a study on the experiences of women in the music industry ( free to download here ), discussing both the broad-level challenges they face – but also pointing to the positives, the opportunities, and the methods that are working and can work to build a better industry of the future.

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Women making music: The COVID impact

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Hanna Kahlert

8 Mar 2021

international womens day

The last 12 months have been marked mostly by the coronavirus pandemic, which has pushed much of life to the digital world. 70% of independent artists overall spent much of the time over lockdowns creating more music, many taking more autonomy over their own marketing and production.

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Live streaming and the role of music artist empowerment in the digital era

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Hanna Kahlert

19 Oct 2020

Music streaming

As the coronavirus lockdowns have forced venues to close and people indoors, artists have been unevenly impacted across the music industry. While many bigger studios were forced to cease operations, and some artists unable to release or record music – often relying on previous recordings they could still send to post-production – smaller independent artists took advantage of being home-bound.

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MIDiA's Recovery Economics principles for competing effectively post lockdown

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Dara Jegede

11 Jun 2020

covid-19 impact

If you missed our webinar on how media and entertainment will evolve post lockdown and how companies should adapt, the recording is available below. MIDiA analysts present in this webinar how the entertainment industries can plan not to simply bounce back, but to rebuild their value propositions and supply chains to adjust to the realities of the new normal.

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Recovery Economics | Bounce Forward not Back

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Mark Mulligan

28 May 2020

COVID-19 social distancing measures caused unprecedented dislocation to the entertainment economy. With a recession now a question of ‘how bad’ rather than ‘if’, entertainment companies have to adapt their businesses and identify new partners to maximise opportunities in the post-lockdown era.

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Spotify Illustrates the Difference Between Flat Engagement and Real Sentiment

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Hanna Kahlert

14 Jan 2020

consumer engagement

engagement metrics

Q3 2019 was a quarter of mixed fortunes for Spotify, with its subscriber base displaying consistent growth, podcasts making a solid early showing, emerging markets demonstrating promise but ad revenue falling short.

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Quick Take: If We Are Moving from an Attention Economy to a Sentiment Economy, Is Music Still Undervalued?

Zach Fuller

19 Dec 2019

Music streaming

post-peak attention

Applying economics to music often invites groans from music fans, but here goes…. The recorded music market is currently worth $18.8 billion dollars a year, and thanks to streaming that number is growing.

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Post-Peak Attention and the Case for Micropayments

Zach Fuller

9 Dec 2019

Success in new business paradigms involves wasting what is abundant to capture what is scarce. The Industrial Revolution did this by taking advantage of technologies that used the finite resource of human physical labour (steam, electricity) and made it considerably more efficient, allowing for bigger factories and the advent of mass production.

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Disney+ Recovers From Initial Blunder to Surpass 10 Million Sign Ups on Debut!

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Alistair Taylor

14 Nov 2019

21st Century Fox

all-encompassing offering

AppleTV+. Market saturation

Disney claims unexpected traffic on its newly-launched service was at fault for the buffering and technical issues of Disney+’s launch Tuesday . The issues highlight just how difficult it is transitioning from a media company to a tech player, with technical glitches an enormous issue for digital-native subscribers.

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Seven Developments in Recorded Music in the 2010s (and the Songs that Defined them)

Zach Fuller

6 Nov 2019

cultural insight

Decade retrospectives are almost doomed to fail. Assess the 60s in 1969 and you would have likely overweighed the influence of Grand Funk Railroad compared to The Velvet Underground. When it comes to the 70s, proto Hip-Hop pioneers such as Grandmaster Flash or the Post-Punk of Joy Division would have been a mere footnote in favour of David Naughton or Melissa Manchester.

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Quick Take: Spotify Expands Premium Duo into Latin America

Zach Fuller

5 Sep 2019

latin America music market

latin America streaming

Music streaming

Spotify has announced that its Premium Duo plan will be expanding to another 17 countries, 14 of which are in Latin America. The plan, which is effectively a mini version of its popular family offering, has been created with the express intention of servicing couples who reside at the same home address.

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Why Stormzy as a Glastonbury Headliner Makes Sense Post-Streaming

Zach Fuller

27 Jun 2019

Live music industry

music festivals

On the eve of Stormzy becoming the first Grime artist to headline Glastonbury, it is worth considering what this represents in terms of the link between the new streaming economy and live music. The South Londoner’s slot is notable less for the now-obligatory controversy that greets any Worthy Farm headliner that isn’t an established rock band (as per Jay-Z and Kanye West’s turns at the festival), but rather should be viewed as a pivot in what the wider live audience ought to expect from the next wave of headliners.

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The Limitations of Music Streaming’s Globalising of Revenue

Zach Fuller

12 Apr 2019

music catalogue

Music streaming

One of music streaming’s great promises is that it creates a more globalised industry. In many ways it is delivering: revenues are rising in markets previously deemed problematic to conduct business within and domestic markets are now flooding with languages other than English—both in no small part down to streaming.

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Quick Take: Spotify’s Throwback Hub and the Future of the Album

Zach Fuller

4 Apr 2019

Music streaming

Throwback Thursday, one of Spotify’s most popular features, has been expanded into a new Throwback hub. Launching initially with 30 playlists and described by Austin Daboh, Head of Music Culture & Editorial at Spotify, as being “a permanent home for our main nostalgia brand”, the announcement is a subtle yet defiant statement against the format playlists are set to usurp: the album.

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Sirius XM Acquires Pandora: Greater Than The Sum Of Their Parts?

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Zach Fuller

24 Sep 2018

Amazon Prime Music

media acquisitions

In the latest example of media acquisitions, though one less likely to flood the headlines as Comcast’s purchase of Sky, Sirius XM has announced it will be purchasing streaming service Pandora for $3.

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