music forecasts
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Sounds of 2026 | MIDiA and Splice name Afro house as the sound of the year
How music’s ‘Instagram moment’ led to its fast fashion era
Music subscriber market shares Q3 2023 New momentum
The future of record labels: Shifting sands
The Boiler Room reckoning: Why scapegoating won’t fix live music’s funding problem
Beyond the song: Why artists need transmedia storytelling
Music industry earnings H1 2023 Dawn of the post-streaming era
The ‘pure’ songwriter is disappearing – and it’s everyone’s problem
Games industry returns to growth, but inflationary pressures will make it worse off still
All eyes, no ears: New MIDiA data shows why virality is not building fandom
State of the music creator economy The consumer era
YouTube meets a new era with DreamTrack and music video remixing
Indie labels are trading quantity for quality as they let go of the “volume game”: MIDiA’s latest label survey
The unflattening of streaming
Misaligned incentives make the music business a zero-sum game
A new era of ‘fan-made’ music is about to begin
Streaming is both retail and radio – it shouldn’t be
