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

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Mark Mulligan

3 Dec 2021

Independent labels

record label market shares

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 the major label groups capitalised on the momentum, with Universal and Warner going public, and Sony going on a spending spree.

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Believe is building growth stories for local independent labels in India

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Srishti Das

2 Dec 2021

Believe Digital

emerging markets

Believe Music, launched in France in 2005 with an aim to empower and support independent artists and labels. Since launching in India in 2013, the company has worked hard to bring their values to the Indian music market.

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Looking forward and back: Why song interpolations reflect a new music industry outlook

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Tatiana Cirisano

2 Dec 2021

Music publishing

If many popular songs from the past year sound familiar, it might be because they are. Song interpolations – when artists copy another song’s underlying melody, often with modified lyrics – are increasingly common, as many of today’s biggest artists spin older hits into new ones.

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Out with viral, in with niche: TikTok’s impact on music changes form

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Tatiana Cirisano

26 Nov 2021

In 2020, TikTok users proved their power for turning songs into hits. Tracks associated with dance challenges, memes and other TikTok trends regularly cracked the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart, and major labels entered bidding wars to sign the previously unknown artists behind TikTok smashes, such as Powfu (of “Death Bed”) and Jawsh685 (of “Laxed [Siren Beat]”).

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A red-hot cultural movement (Taylor’s Version)

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Ashleigh Millar

23 Nov 2021

Here at MIDiA Research, we like to take a deep dive into fandom culture and the effect it has on industry progress and strategy. As of late, we have focused on the success behind tribal fandom (a skill that has somewhat been mastered by the K-pop genre – note the BTS A.

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Why Bored Ape and other NFTs need music (not just the other way around)

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Tatiana Cirisano

17 Nov 2021

Universal Music Group

The popular NFT collection-turned-collective Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) entered the music industry this week, as Universal Music Group (UMG) and Timbaland both announced plans to turn the brand’s trendy cartoon apes into virtual music artists.

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Can music rights expand to drive the new music creator economy?

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Kriss Thakrar

11 Nov 2021

rights acquisition

Music publishing

music catalogue M+A

The investment that is pouring into music rights has exploded in recent years, hitting $10 billion at the time of writing and set to increase much further. Many rights acquisitions deals have been based on the catalogues of the traditional music industry (writer/publishing and master rights).

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Creator consolidation: Fender becomes the next creator tools major

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Kriss Thakrar

2 Nov 2021

music production

Independent artists

When Francisco Partners brought together Native Instruments and Izotope, it created the first creator tool major . Now a second player has staked its claim: Fender has made one of the biggest creator tools moves of the year through its acquisition of guitar-focused creator tools company, PreSonus .

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Why Adele is Bond and BTS is Squid Game

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Mark Mulligan

25 Oct 2021

When Spotify announced that Adele had broken the record for the most streams in one day, with 19.8 million streams , the caveat was that this was true as long as you do not include all of the streams BTS had accumulated in 24 hours for ‘Butter’ in May.

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Why making memes with creator tools is the new music industry

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Kriss Thakrar

25 Oct 2021

user-generated content

music production

The creator tools business has been one of the biggest winners of the pandemic, as people turned to music-making in record numbers. Second-hand gear marketplace, Reverb.com, provided some insight into the products driving the creator boom – and two, in particular, stand out: the MPC One and OP-1 samplers.

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Adele’s success will be best measured in cultural impact – not sales

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Mark Mulligan

15 Oct 2021

Adele is something of an anomaly in the modern music business, a throwback to how things used to be. These days even the biggest artists struggle to get mainstream attention for their new releases in a flooded market that is defined by more releases than ever before, and the ‘always on’ artist who is continually releasing new music and talking to their audience.

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Did July 1st 2019 mark the end of Spotify’s music creator dream?

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Mark Mulligan

8 Oct 2021

On July 1st2019, Spotify announced that it was closing its system that allowed artists to upload their music directly to Spotify . The move came in the wake of fierce opposition from record labels who had let Spotify know, in no uncertain terms, that they were not going to let it compete directly against them.

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Live streaming’s second growth phase

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Mark Mulligan

6 Oct 2021

live streamed concerts

virtual concerts

Live streaming erupted in 2020 in the wake of the pandemic. As the year progressed, the market transformed rapidly from a bunch of bands playing guitar in their bedrooms to highly produced, ticketed shows with tens of thousands of viewers.

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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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Creator TAMs: a new way to assess the creator economy

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Mark Mulligan

1 Oct 2021

Business Strategy

The music creator tools space is undergoing a change that is simultaneously renaissance and transformation. The creator culture boom has driven an unprecedented degree of investment and investor interest.

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Content proliferation is remaking entertainment categories and giving rise to experiential consumption

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Hanna Kahlert

23 Sep 2021

Media and Marketing

The attention economy reaching saturation was a disruptive force in entertainment long before the coronavirus pandemic. Too much competition for too little time meant that audience engagement was increasingly hard to grab and harder still to retain.

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UMG’s buoyant stock debut is a new chapter for the music business

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Mark Mulligan

22 Sep 2021

Business Strategy

Universal Music Group (UMG) had an extremely positive first day of trading as a standalone entity, with shares at one stage trading 35% up from their reference point and making the market cap leap to $55 billion , while former-parent, Vivendi, saw a drop of two thirds in its value.

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‘Middle class’ artists need niche, not scale

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Mark Mulligan

17 Sep 2021

Business Strategy

Streaming continues to grow strongly, as evidenced by the 28% growth reported by the RIAA for H1 2021 in the US . Everything looks great for the build-up to the impeding Universal Music Group (UMG) IPO.

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Creator tools will drive the (equal opportunity) future of music

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Hanna Kahlert

17 Sep 2021

The last two years under a pandemic have driven more music creators in a DIY direction. Equipment and instrument sales reported record-breaking growth over lockdown – Sweetwater, for example, had its best year ever, breaking over a billion in sales .

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Axing exclusive music licenses in China will drive new local music cultures

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Srishti Das

15 Sep 2021

emerging markets

As a result of the new guidelines set out by the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC), record labels are no longer allowed to issue exclusive licenses to music services. Previously, music services in China were able to secure exclusive deals with record labels which meant that these services could then sub-license to other platforms in the region for an additional licensing fee.

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