Recorded music industry revenues hit $8.4bn in the US in H1 – but paid streaming account growth slowed again
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Tributes pour in for entertainment industry legend Clarence Avant, the ‘Godfather Of Black Music’
Tributes poured in on Monday (August 14) for legendary music industry figure Clarence Avant, who passed away at his...
Spotify is raising its price in the US and 52 other markets. How much money will that make the music industry?
MBW Reacts is a series of analytical articles from Music Business Worldwide written in response to major recent entertainment...
Utopia wants to be the ‘operating system’ for the music industry, and 3 other things we learned from founder Mattias Hjelmstedt’s new interview
Since Switzerland-headquartered Utopia Music launched in 2016, it has turned heads with its aggressive acquisitions of businesses in the...
Will Page on streaming pricing, music’s revenue ‘pie’ – and why the global record industry is more local than ever
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The US recorded music industry grew by $500m on a wholesale basis in 2022. The US music publishing industry grew by nearly double that amount.
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Why the power of AI may hold the key to distributing wealth throughout the music industry (Part 1)
MBW Views is a series of exclusive op/eds from eminent music industry people… with something to say. The following...
Music industry veteran Robin Godfrey-Cass joins Primary Wave to focus on catalog acquisitions from ‘iconic’ songwriters
Veteran British music executive Robin Godfrey-Cass has joined Primary Wave Music to focus on catalog acquisitions of “iconic and...
‘Songs are the engine of the music industry and sometimes people can lose sight of that’
MBW’s World’s Greatest Songwriters series celebrates the composers behind the globe’s biggest hits. This time out we talk to...
New $100m-backed fund launches to buy catalogs in Asia, led by industry veteran Chee Meng Tan and ex-Universal Music China MD Garand Wu
The global music rights acquisitions space’s biggest players have been predominantly based in the US and Europe to date....