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

Srishti Das

9 Apr 2021

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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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Creator tools platforms could become social networks

Mark Mulligan

31 Mar 2021

Music Product Strategy

With all the growing interest and investment in creator tools companies, music production platform Bandlab hitting 30 million users points to a longer-term future for the space – one in which the boundaries spread far beyond the base of music makers.

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

Hanna Kahlert

29 Mar 2021

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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...

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BE THE CHANGE: WOMEN MAKING MUSIC 2021

Dara Jegede

25 Mar 2021

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BE THE CHANGE: WOMEN MAKING MUSIC 2021 TuneCore and Believe Partner with MIDiA for First of its Kind Global Study LONDON, BROOKLYN AND PARIS —Thursday, March 25 2021: MIDIA Research and TuneCore/Believe today release a new study on women creators, revealing the challenges, experiences, inspiration...

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Addison Rae will not be owned: The pitfalls of the major label business model

Kriss Thakrar

25 Mar 2021

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TikTok stars are rejecting major labels. It is no secret that major labels are being outpaced by independent artists in the overall market. Addison Rae has a combined following of over 100 million between TikTok and Instagram alone, and she has leveraged her position to independently put together an...

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IFPI confirms global recorded music revenue growth

Mark Mulligan

23 Mar 2021

Music Business Strategy

Last week MIDiA reported that recorded music revenues grew by 7% in 2020. Today the IFPI confirmed that figure, reporting 7.4% growth. (Similarly, the IFPI reported 19.9% growth for streaming, MIDiA had 19.

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Women creators: This is also our business

Srishti Das

22 Mar 2021

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MIDiA, in conjunction with TuneCore and Believe, is about to publish the findings of a global survey on the experiences of 401 female creators in the music industry: artists, songwriters, producers, DJs and creator managers, asking them to tell their own stories as the foundation for greater industr...

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Roblox, piracy and the future of music in UGC 2.0

Kriss Thakrar

19 Mar 2021

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A community of Roblox users are losing a battle against moderation as the platform cracks down on music piracy, due to the platform’s newly public status bringing with it a new level of responsibility.

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Recorded music revenues hit $23.1 billion in 2020, with artists direct the winners – again

Mark Mulligan

15 Mar 2021

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The global pandemic caused widespread disruption to the music business, in particular decimating the live business and impacting publisher public performance royalties. Although the recorded music business experienced a dip in the earlier months of the pandemic, the remainder of the year saw industr...

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Native Instruments and iZotope: creator tools major in the making

Mark Mulligan

11 Mar 2021

Music Business Strategy

At the start of the year private equity firm Francisco Partners acquired a majority stake in creator tools stalwart Native Instruments. It always looked like it was going to be the start of something big and today we saw the next step on Native’s new journey, with leading audio plugin company iZot...

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Women making music: The COVID impact

Hanna Kahlert

8 Mar 2021

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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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The music business in 2021: Joining the dots

Mark Mulligan

4 Mar 2021

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It has been one of those weeks, with impactful music business announcements coming thick and fast. As is often the case, a succession of apparently unrelated events actually have a connecting thread. In this instance there are three: 1.

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Smaller independents and artists direct grew fastest in 2020

Mark Mulligan

1 Mar 2021

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Last year we identified a small but crucial metric from Spotify’s annual report: the share of all streams accounted for by majors and independent licensing body Merlin. It was crucial because it enabled us to segment the streaming market in detail, when combined with market data from majors and in...

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Clubhouse and the next evolution of audio

Hanna Kahlert

23 Feb 2021

Music Media and Marketing

Audio has seen an overall boom during the last year , with audiobooks alone significantly gaining consumer attention time and attracting audience over from radio. Podcasts have also grown in the lockdown periods, as background audio surges into the space left behind by contextual ambiance.

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Last call for the global independent label survey

Mark Mulligan

18 Feb 2021

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With 2020 now comfortably behind us and public companies in their earnings cycle, a clear picture is starting to emerge of how the global recorded music market performed. MIDiA is midway through fielding the global independent label survey that will help create the definitive view of how the indepen...

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Taylor Swift and the changing tide of artist power

Hanna Kahlert

16 Feb 2021

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In the latest episode of a long-running feud between Taylor Swift and Big Machine Records, the western princess turned pop icon is releasing the first of her original re-recorded albums under her own ownership.

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New artists, does it pay to be streaming first?

Keith Jopling

10 Feb 2021

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This is part 2 of my "marketing long read" posts, part 1 focused on Catalogue . In a recent interview with Steve Lamacq, Dave Grohl of the Foo Fighters told him “We don’t have anyone else making decisions for us, we do that ourselves”, something a globally successful 10-album rock behemoth can...

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Sony just became (even more of) an independent powerhouse

Mark Mulligan

1 Feb 2021

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Sony Music has bought AWAL (and Kobalt Neighbouring Rights) from Kobalt for $430 million . By adding AWAL to its already-booming Orchard division (as well as other distribution companies), it now has leading brands for independent artists as well as independent labels.

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Equitable remuneration, artist income and unintended consequences

Mark Mulligan

29 Jan 2021

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The UK Parliament’s inquiry on the economics of streaming appears to be building a case for equitable remuneration (ER). There are many iterations of what ER can mean, but a simplified description of what is in play here is: a share of streaming revenue being paid directly by the DSPs to an entity...

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Women making music

Hanna Kahlert

28 Jan 2021

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Even taking into account the impact of the pandemic, it has never been a better time for independent creators in the music business. The various 2020 lockdowns may have prevented artists from earning vital touring income and disrupted release and promotion cycles, but for many it also pushed new cre...

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