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Is TikTok becoming a record label? The question misses the point

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Blog post by Tatiana Cirisano
18 May 2022
music streaming
music industry
fandom
Every time TikTok does anything that seems to hedge on record label territory, someone inevitably asks the question: is TikTok turning into a record label? Cue the eye-rolls from the music industry. No...
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How the iPod changed everything

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Blog post by Mark Mulligan
10 May 2022
ipod
iphone
ipad
Apple just announced that it is finally ending production of the iPod . At 21 years of age, it outlived many of the dramatic changes it witnessed and triggered. In this age, dominated by streaming (and...
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What Snapchat is getting right about the future (and why music should pay attention)

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Blog post by Tatiana Cirisano
6 May 2022
music industry
social media
snapchat
The music industry has spent the last few years studying the ins and outs of new platforms like TikTok and Twitch, with good reason. But the decade-old Snapchat increasingly appears to be social media’s...
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Music industry earnings 2021: Riding the wave

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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...
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Women In Music 2022
Deutsch, Español, Français, Italiano, Nederlands, Português

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Report by Hanna Kahlert, Srishti Das and Tatiana Cirisano
5 May 2022
Free Report
Music
BE THE CHANGE – Women In Music 2022. The report and executive summary are here available to download in French, and the executive summary is further available to download in German, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese,...
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When will a better future arrive for women in music?

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Blog post by Srishti Das
4 May 2022
women in music
diversity and inclusion
gender diversity
Last year, MIDiA Research, together with TuneCore and Believe, launched BE THE CHANGE: Women making music  to highlight the barriers faced by minority creators and executives alike. We have now published...
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BE THE CHANGE – Women In Music 2022

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Report by Hanna Kahlert, Srishti Das and Tatiana Cirisano
4 May 2022
Free Report
Music
The last two years of pandemic-driven disruption in the music industry may just have created a window of opportunity for real change in the fight for gender equality. The next generation of women music...
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Spotify’s presidential size loss reveals key aspect of the audio market

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Blog post by Annie Langston
29 Apr 2022
Podcasts
Spotify
celebrity
At the start of the audio battle, Spotify leveraged exclusive content and company acquisitions to establish its current market position. In 2020, Spotify announced a series of flashy podcast deals that...
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The pandemic catalysed a streaming business model reckoning. Is the live sector next?

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Blog post by Tatiana Cirisano
27 Apr 2022
live music
live nation
touring
The news is everywhere: concerts are back. Coachella heralded the return of a roaring festival season, hundreds of acts are back on the road, and Live Nation says it is expecting a record year. But other...
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The attention recession has hit Spotify too

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Blog post by Mark Mulligan
27 Apr 2022
Video
Music
Media and Marketing
Spotify added two million subscribers in Q1 2022.  Yes, this incorporates the impact of 1.5 million lost Russian subscribers and is set against Netflix having lost 0.2 million subscribers over the same...
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Music industry earnings 2021
Riding the wave

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Report by Mark Mulligan
24 Apr 2022
£5,000.00 excl. VAT
streaming music
earnings
music earnings
20,000 foot view:  In this report MIDiA presents, contrasts and analyses headline financial metrics of 12 leading music industry companies across labels, publishers, streaming and live. The companies...
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Elon’s Twitter bid is a warning: creators are building on rented land

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Blog post by Tatiana Cirisano
22 Apr 2022
creator tools
Content Creators
creator economy
In the creator economy, creators earn money by going direct-to-fan, cutting out traditional middlemen. But it is a misconception that this model gets rid of middlemen entirely. Rather, platforms are becoming...
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Podcasts’ music opportunity both serves audio creators and inspires listeners

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Blog post by Annie Langston
21 Apr 2022
Podcasts
exclusive content
audio
As the audio market becomes more saturated, solving creator pain points becomes essential for both platforms and networks. Music licensing is becoming a crucial component of podcast creation but the often-complicated...
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Why the remix challenge is primed for a revival

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Blog post by Tatiana Cirisano
14 Apr 2022
TikTok
social media
music marketing
Remix challenges have been part of the record label toolbox for more than a decade. Artists let contestants purchase or earn song stems; then the artist and fans vote on the best remixes. The idea is simple:...
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Podcast subscriptions are a key territory for the audio market

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Blog post by Annie Langston
12 Apr 2022
Podcasts
subscriptions
audio fans
Podcast subscriptions offer both a direct revenue stream for audio creators and provide fans with an amplified audio experience. Despite the percentage that the subscription services take from the earrings,...
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SiriusXM’s podcast partnership sets new precedent for the audio market

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Blog post by Annie Langston
7 Apr 2022
SiriusXM
audio
Podcasts
At the kick-off of the audio battle, some of the largest tech platforms – most notably Spotify and Amazon – entered the ring by purchasing various podcast networks. These pre-emptive moves aimed to...
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Fake artists are what happens when fandom dies

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Blog post by Mark Mulligan
7 Apr 2022
Music
Cultural Trends
The topic of ‘fake artists’ refuses to go away . For those who have been on Mars for the last couple of years, fake artists refer to artists who release under a streaming  pen name  but do not build...
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Is the catalogue acquisition market betting tomorrow's success on yesterday's metrics?

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Blog post by Tatiana Cirisano
5 Apr 2022
music industry
music industry investment
music catalogue
The music industry spent $5.3 billion on music catalogue acquisitions in 2021, according to MIDiA's most recent market report , not counting another $6.7 billion that was invested into music companies...
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The future of music consumption is (re)creation

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Blog post by Kriss Thakrar
4 Apr 2022
creator economy
social music
creator tools
 The music industry has grown at a record rate , led by streaming and boosted by an influx of an increasingly relevant revenue source: non-DSP streaming (via platforms such as TikTok and Twitch). This...
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Music catalogue acquisition
Picking apart the $5 billion competition for icons

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Report by Kriss Thakrar and Tatiana Cirisano
31 Mar 2022
£5,000.00 excl. VAT
Music
Investment
music streaming
  A variety of economic factors and stock market volatility during the coronavirus pandemic helped establish music as an attractive asset class for institutional investors. With labels, publishers, institutional...
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