Analysis On… the New York State of things – and dinner with Robert Kyncl. MBW founder Tim Ingham on 48 hours in New York City, and three hours with Warner's boss
Analysis News Confirmed: The 3 major music companies jointly generated over $20bn last year (that’s over $2m per hour) MBW crunches the 2021 numbers, and discovers a banner year for music's biggest players
Analysis News Like Neil Young, David Crosby wants to remove his music catalog from Spotify. Trouble is, he’s lost control of it. Why David Crosby's story over the past two years tells us much about streaming, the current catalog frenzy, and acting on principle
Analysis News Netflix raises prices in the US (again). Will Spotify refuse to follow (again)? Netflix has raised its prices six times since 2014. Spotify has not kept up.
Analysis Over 73% of the US music market is now claimed by catalog records, rather than new releases (UPDATE) MBW's analysis of latest MRC Data numbers show that less than a fifth of US market in H2 2021 was made up of new releases
Analysis News Universal vs Spotify: Which of music’s two giants will be worth more at the end of 2021? It's neck-and-neck right now, with Universal $7 billion ahead of Spotify following a damaging wave of headlines about stand-up comedians
Analysis News Why the ’80/20 rule’ will be crucial to Hipgnosis’ mission to buy billions of dollars of music catalogs in 2022 and beyond Hipgnosis has over $2.5 billion of deals in the pipeline. The question of who's going to pay for them requires a complex but important answer.
News Here’s exactly what Spotify, Apple and other streaming services want to pay songwriters from 2023 onwards. MBW rifles through the filings of Big Tech to see what the likes of Google and Spotify are proposing
Analysis News The name’s bonds. Music bonds. How the genius of Bowie bonds is making a comeback, 14 years after they went away
Analysis News Adele returns with 30: Here’s 5 things we know about the superstar’s new album so far No featured artists, new collaborators, and at least one "hypnotic" track
Analysis Would AWAL really have thrived had it not been sold to Sony Music? MBW crunches the numbers on AWAL, and asks if the UK competition watchdog is looking in the right direction
Analysis News Vincent Bolloré is about to own $7bn-plus of Universal shares… and other things we learned from UMG’s new prospectus Prospectus published ahead of UMG's listing on the Amsterdam stock exchange on September 21
Analysis News Drake’s Certified Lover Boy, Spotify, and the destruction of the all-dominant streaming superstar What the performance of Drizzy's new studio record tells us about a growing trend in the music business
Analysis News The major music companies now turn over $2.5m every hour – and will generate more than $20bn between them this year MBW's number-crunching tells us it's going to be a gangbusters year for the majors
Analysis 3 things to know about Believe’s finances, as it launches IPO at a €2 billion company valuation MBW breaks down Believe's finances to get a handle on the company as it launches its long-awaited IPO