A new nugget of information emerges – and MBW does the math
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Category archives: Analysis
From The Weeknd’s Universal deal to Spotify’s Q1 results: It’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up
The biggest stories from the past week – and why they matter
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Spotify’s share price crash is a shocker for Daniel Ek. It won’t have best pleased music’s biggest companies.
MBW crunches the numbers on Universal and Sony’s ownership stakes in Daniel Ek’s green machine
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Could the Music Catalog Rights Boom Generate Windfalls for Non-Superstars?
YM&U Executive Manager, Alex Frankel, on tech that could expand the catalog rush to smaller artists and songwriters
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No Netflix problems here: Spotify added 2m net subscribers in Q1 – despite cutting off 1.5 million subs in Russia
Spotiify beats guidance on various key metric for its business – including users and subscribers
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Tomorrow, Spotify faces its most crucial earnings call yet. Here are the 3 difficult questions MBW would be asking.
After Netflix’s shocker of a Q1, all eyes are on Spotify’s equivalent fiscal announcement. Here’s what MBW would ask Daniel Ek.
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Nearly 80% of artists on Spotify have fewer than 50 monthly listeners
There is an ocean of music on Spotify that is a very long way from being popular
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Why Ed Sheeran’s copyright victory matters – by the lawyers that represented him.
The following op/ed comes from Simon Goodbody and Mark Krais, Partner co-founding partner at Bray & Krais Solicitors
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Myth-understandings: what price truth in musical memoirs?
Eamonn Forde explores mythology in music biopics and documentaries
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Latin music is on course to generate over $1 billion in the US in 2022
MBW calculations suggest that Latin music claimed a near-7% market share of US streaming revenues last year
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