Posted on 13th March, 2019 by
Mark Mulligan
in Artists Direct, DIY, Diy Artists, Global Music Market Share, Global Music Revenues, Independent Record Labels, Indie Labels, Indie Market Share, Major Labels, Major Record Labels, Music Revenues, Record Labels, Sony Music, Streaming Revenue 2018, Universal Music and Warner Music
Recorded music revenues grew in 2018 for the fourth consecutive year, reaching $18.8 billion, up $2.2 billion from 2017. Streaming was the engine room of growth, up 30% year on…
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Posted on 4th December, 2018 by
Mark Mulligan
in Global Music Market Share, Independent Labels, Independent Market Share, Indie Labels, Indie Market Share, Win and Worldwide Independent Network
The global independent label trade body WIN has just published the third edition of the Worldwide Independent Market report. You can download the entire report for free here. As regular readers…
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Posted on 26th October, 2018 by
Mark Mulligan
in Artists Direct, Independent Record Labels, Indie Labels, Major Record Labels, Market Shares, Netflix, Record Labels, Spotify, Spotify As A Label and Spotify Originals
Spotify’s Daniel Ek is betting big on developing a ‘two sided marketplace’ for music. With the company’s market cap on a downward trend despite strong growth metrics, Ek might find…
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Posted on 1st March, 2017 by
Mark Mulligan
in Independent Labels, Indie Labels, Major Labels, Market Share, Record Labels, Recorded Music Market and Recorded Music Revenue
Following on from the global market share numbers we released on Sunday, here are our findings regarding the growth of the overall market. Throughout 2016 as the major label earnings…
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