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With Meta’s revenue share program, can rights holders and platforms finally agree?

Blog post by Tatiana Cirisano

28 Jul 2022

Over the last week, Meta made headlines three times in relation to music on its platforms (Instagram and Facebook). First, royalty-free music provider Epidemic Sound sued Meta for allegedly allowing users...

Why Spotify’s TAM is only part of the story

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

9 Jun 2022

TAM

addressable audience

Spotify

Spotify just held an investor day in which it ran through its vision for growth. Spotify has long touted the concept of its total addressable market (TAM), its path to a billion users and the role of...

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...

Spotify’s Loud and Clear is about fandom, not royalties

Blog post by Tatiana Cirisano

24 Mar 2022

streaming music

Spotify

streaming royalties

Spotify has updated its Loud & Clear website exploring how it pays royalties to rightsholders, and it claims that more artists are earning income on the platform than ever before. Many in the music...

What the boom in young artist catalogue sales says about the music market

Blog post by Tatiana Cirisano

11 Feb 2022

music catalogue

music catalogue M+A

streaming music

The catalogue-sales boom is one of the most talked about music trends of the past two years. Most of the conversation has, understandably, revolved around aging icons, like Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen,...

Unpacking music royalty investment NFTs

Blog post by Tatiana Cirisano

26 Jan 2022

streaming music

cryptocurrency

NFTs

Last Thursday, a Royal NFT drop allowing fans to purchase a share in the streaming royalties of two Nas songs sold out within minutes. The drop was delayed by a week after high demand crashed Royal’s...

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

Blog post by Ashleigh Millar

1 Oct 2021

TikTok

live streaming

songwriters

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...

How Bandcamp could really fix the music business

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

25 Jun 2021

independent artists

artists

streaming music

“A thought: has streaming become the place to address consumers and the likes of Bandcamp the places to engage fans? i.e., fans and fandom inherently matter less on streaming because it/they are a minority.” ...

We’re Hiring (again)

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

11 Jun 2021

streaming music

Music

business strategy

The pandemic rewrote the rules of digital entertainment, creating new opportunities and threats at an unprecedented rate while also intensifying competition for consumer attention. Never before has the...

Music and podcasts are competing for the same time

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

28 May 2021

Podcasts

streaming music

media consumption

The pandemic changed media consumption. Consumers acquired an extra 12% of entertainment time and though everything was up, some categories grew much faster than others. One of the biggest gainers...

The reign of the superstar is over

Blog post by Hanna Kahlert

13 May 2021

Media and Marketing

Cultural Trends

superstar

It is growing ever-more difficult to generate a singular ‘big hit’. Awards shows have always had their issues with keeping relevant, but with streaming for both music and video exponentially increasing...

Assessing the streaming opportunity: You’re doing it wrong

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

9 Apr 2021

TAM

SAM

SOM

Buoyed by lockdown, streaming enjoyed another strong year in 2020, up 17.1% on 2019 according to MIDiA’s recorded music market shares report . But the revenue slowdown will come in 2021, driven by...

Smaller independents and artists direct grew fastest in 2020

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

1 Mar 2021

Spotify

streaming music

independent labels

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...

The COVID bounce and the coming attention recession

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

19 Feb 2021

media consumption

entertainment consumption

audiobooks

2020 was by any measure a unique year in modern times. While the societal impact of the pandemic was, and continues to be, horrific, for the entertainment industries it was a year of plenty. At the start...

New artists, does it pay to be streaming first?

Blog post by Keith Jopling

10 Feb 2021

Strategy

Marketing

streaming music

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...

What measures an artist's success in today's music industry?

Blog post by Keith Jopling

23 Dec 2020

Strategy

Media

streaming music

It’s that time of year again for lists. Endless top albums and song rankings that can be a bonus for a music artist to be included on. A placement on an influential list (which ones those are is more...

Turning fandom into revenue: Why UGC is the next big revenue maker for the content industries

Blog post by Keith Jopling

28 Oct 2020

Music

Games

Covid-19

In our recent report The Rising Power of UGC , in association with Audible Magic we identified that the music industry could unlock as much as $6 billion in revenues from UGC by 2022. Such an outcome would...

Why Spotify needs Russia

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

16 Jul 2020

Music

Spotify

Russia

Spotify’s delayed Russia launch finally happened this week . While it did not drive a stock price growth like the Josh Rogan deal did (the stock closed just 1 cent higher than the previous day’s close)...

How the DNA of a hit has changed over 20 years

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

13 Jul 2020

Music

hits

the song economy

Recorded music has always evolved to fit the dominant format of the era, from three-minute songs to fit on 7-inch vinyl, through eight-song albums to fit on LPs, through to 16+ song albums to fill CDs....

Spotify Q1 2020: Choppy Waters Ahead

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

29 Apr 2020

coronavirus

Covid-19

potify

Spotify’s first quarter earnings were a mixed bag, with a largely positive picture for Q1 but some warning signs for the remainder of the year: Subscribers: Spotify’s Q1 earnings may not have matched...

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