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K-pop giant HYBE asks court to unmask YouTubers accusing its artists of ‘plagiarism’

HYBE has filed defamation lawsuits against seven YouTube channels that it says have damaged the company's and artists' reputations.

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Who owns Spotify in 2024?

Co-founders Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon continue to dominate as shareholders of Spotify.

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The US music streaming market might be feeling less-than-fizzy, but over in Brazil… it’s still party time.

After last week's deflating numbers from the RIAA, Brazil's local trade body has some good news for record labels

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BMG revenues hit $496m in H1 2024, up 12.5% YoY on organic basis

Thomas Coesfeld's changes to BMG had a clear effect on company's profit profile in H1 2024 period

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Sony generated $2.54bn from recorded music and publishing in calendar Q2, up 11.4% YoY; recorded music streaming revenues up 5.0% YoY

Recorded music up 10.8% YoY; music publishing up 13.3% YoY

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US music publishing revenue jumped 10.7% to $6.2bn in 2023… outstripping recorded music’s growth in percentage terms

The NMPA is focusing its energy on a battle against Spotify over royalty payments

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Hipgnosis Songs Fund’s catalog turned out to be worth more than a lot of people thought.

In light of Blackstone's latest bid, MBW crunches the numbers on what HSF spent on assets... and what they're worth now

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Sony generated $2.5bn from recorded music and publishing in calendar Q1 2024, up 14.7% YoY

Sony's corporate music division posted annual revenues of nearly $11 billion in the 12 months to end of March

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BMG annual revenues hit $979m in 2023, up 4.6% YoY; EBITDA flat at $210m

BMG's EBITDA margin stood at 21.4% in 2023, down slightly from the 22.5% margin it posted in 2022

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Universal Music Group generated over $1 billion per month on average in 2023

MBW crunches the numbers from UMG's latest quarterly earnings announcement

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Sony generated $2.52bn from recorded music and publishing in calendar Q4 2023, up 14% YoY

MBW crunches the numbers from Sony Corp's latest quarterly earnings announcement

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The major record companies (and Merlin) saw their Spotify market share fall again in 2023. Yet even before ‘artist-centric’ changes, this decline started slowing.

Spotify's annual report reveals an interesting trend around the joint market share of major record companies and Merlin on the platform

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More price rises… now? Spotify price hike helped drive a 9.8% YoY jump in UK music subscription spending in 2023

July 2023 marked the first time in its 15-year history that Spotify increased its flagship subscription price point in the UK (and many other territories). Since that point, an individual monthly Premium subscription to Spotify in the UK has cost GBP £10.99, as opposed to its previous price of £9.99; the platform’s Family Plan tariff … Continued

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Hipgnosis Songs Fund like-for-like revenue up 14.0% YoY in 6 months to end of September; company’s portfolio now valued at $2.62 billion by Citrin Cooperman

Red Hot Chili Peppers catalog was UK-listed fund's biggest revenue generator in the period

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Warner Music Group FY revenues top $6bn for first time; company’s recorded music streaming up 8.9% YoY in calendar Q3

Warner Music Group has posted its fiscal Q4 (calendar Q3) and FY financial results ending September 30, 2023