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Three supply-side indicators that signal the new music industry has arrived

Keith Jopling

7 Nov 2019

Media Strategy Music

The CD brought unprecedented growth in music-as-product. Then Napster came along as the first real digital disruptor and burst that bubble very effectively. iTunes then disrupted Napster (partly alongside industry anti-piracy efforts) by legally unbundling and re-aggregating music in digital librari...

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Seven developments in recorded music in the 2010s (and the songs that defined them)

Zach Fuller

6 Nov 2019

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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 h...

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NFL adding music to its playbook

Alistair Taylor

4 Nov 2019

Fandom NFL Sports

The NFL continues expanding its reach with the news that it is providing both video and audio content to global streaming services Spotify and Tidal (via Musically ). This follows the NFL’s recently-announced partnerships with social platforms TikTok, Reddit, Facebook and YouTube.

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What should label playlist strategies be in 2020?

Keith Jopling

15 Oct 2019

Marketing Strategy Product Strategy

MIDiA’s ‘Playlist Revolution’ report recently highlighted that, although playlists have become valuable commercial music real estate in their current form, there is plenty of scope for further development of the format.

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Fortnite’s black hole: A fandom play for peak attention

Hanna Kahlert

14 Oct 2019

Fandom fandom insight Fortnite

One would think that, in a highly competitive market where every entertainment proposition is now increasingly struggling to maintain engaged audience share, the ideal strategy would not be to obliterate one of your most popular ( 250 million players globally ) games with an asteroid strike.

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How music publishers are driving a full stack revolution

Mark Mulligan

14 Oct 2019

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Music publishing catalogues are gaining momentum fast as an asset class for institutional investments, with transactions ranging from large catalogue mergers and acquisitions (M&A) through to investment vehicles for songwriters’ shares such as the Hipgnosis Fund and Royalty Exchange.

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Abbey Road 50 years on: The two worlds of music listening

Mark Mulligan

7 Oct 2019

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Half a century after it first after it first topped the charts, The Beatles’ Abbey Road is back at the summit of the UK charts (per the BBC ).With the anniversary editions of the album retailing for between $20 and $100, the impact on Universal Music’s revenue will be even more pronounced than t...

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Five trends changing music marketing

Keith Jopling

2 Oct 2019

Marketing Strategy Music

Marketing music has never been straightforward. That’s why back in the day, label executives would use the single as the shortcut to finding an audience on which to propel the artist, and even more importantly, their latest album.

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YouTube Returns to Its Roots by Making Originals Free

Amanda Stears

30 Aug 2019

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YouTube is shifting its original programming strategy by lifting the paywall for all of its original content. Since the rebranding of YouTube Premium in 2018, viewers can opt to pay for a monthly subscription fee of $11.

The Frank Ocean Days May Be Gone, but Streaming Disintermediation Is Just Getting Going

Mark Mulligan

24 Jul 2019

Marketing Music

Music Business Worldwide recently ran a story highlighting that both Spotify and Apple Music were backing independent artist (i.e. independent of record label rather than an indie label artist) Aaron Smith, including featuring him in priority playlists such as Spotify’s New Music Friday.

Independent Artists: The Age of Empowerment

Mark Mulligan

11 Jul 2019

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MIDiA is proud to announce an exclusive new report in conjunction with Amuse – Independent Artists: The Age of Empowerment . The report is based on a global survey of independent artists that we conducted earlier this year, with respondents from all of the world’s continents.

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Big Machine (Inadvertently) Just Did a Promo Ad for Label Services Deals

Mark Mulligan

1 Jul 2019

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The sales of Taylor Swift’s former label Big Machine Records to Scooter Braun has resulted in an ugly spat that has been played out very publicly. First Braun enthused about acquiring a ‘brilliant’ company and the global ‘opportunities’.

The Classical Music Market - Streaming's Next Genre?

Dara Jegede

19 Jun 2019

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When IDAGIO commissioned MIDiA to explore the classical music audience globally, we were excited to validate the hypothesis that a classical music resurgence was possible in today’s on-demand music streaming world.

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Here’s Why Apple Just Killed Off iTunes

Mark Mulligan

4 Jun 2019

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Apple CEO Tim Cook speaks during Apple's annual Worldwide Developers Conference in San Jose, California, U.S. June 3, 2019. REUTERS/Mason Trinca Apple has announced that it is closing iTunes and replacing it with three new apps: Apple Music, Apple Podcasts and Apple TV Apps.

Quick Take: The Bull Argument for Music Publishing Acquisitions

Zach Fuller

30 May 2019

Music

The music rights landgrab continues. This past week alone has seen Primary Wave take a stake in rights to Culture Club, having already inked a deal with the Whitney Houston Estate. Meanwhile, Hipgnosis Song fund have added to their recent acquisition of Eurythmic’s writer credits by taking a stake...

Quick Take: Spotify, Stories and Music – the Social Media Divide

Zach Fuller

16 May 2019

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The story of a song’s creation is one of the great mysteries of music. Regularly are we regaled with anecdotes of a song emerging fully formed in a 15-minute flurry of creative genius. However, while less seductive, the reality is that more often than not a composition goes through many iterations...

PledgeMusic and Not-So-Glorious Failure

Mark Mulligan

10 May 2019

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Pioneering fan funding platform PledgeMusic is now officially over, having entered administration (i.e. Chapter 11) in the UK reportedly owing its artists around $1 million and with little expectation of any asset sale generating enough cash to clear those debts.

Spotify, the Decline of Playlists and the Rise of Podcasts

Mark Mulligan

11 Apr 2019

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The following is a small excerpt from MIDiA’s forthcoming third edition of its ‘landmark State of the Streaming Nation’ report. For more information about this report email stephen@midiaresearch.

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Downtown Acquires AVL: Value Chains in a Post-direct Distribution Era

Zach Fuller

28 Mar 2019

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When Spotify announced that it was going to launch direct distribution on its platform, it was clear the various digital distributors that emerged in the post-Napster wave of online music (Tunecore, CD Baby, Ditto etc) would have to do something to counter the impact.

Calling all Artists!

Mark Mulligan

14 Mar 2019

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In partnership with independent distribution company Amuse, MIDiA Research is undertaking a detailed study of the music artist landscape. We are fielding a survey to the artist community , exploring issues such as: What success looks like to you Career aspirations The importance of signing to a reco...

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