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Spotify’s valuation is half the size it was a year ago. Could a Big Tech titan make a shock acquisition bid?
It couldn’t really happen… could it?
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Artists should take a principled stance against Spotify for songwriters
The following MBW Op/ed comes from David Israelite, the President and CEO of the National Music Publishers’ Association
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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
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From Warner and Universal scrapping unrecouped balances to Spotify’s 180m subs: It’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up
The biggest stories of the week – and why they matter
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Spotify added 3m new creators to its platform last year… and 4 other things we learned from the firm’s Q4 earnings call.
The Spotify founder gave some revelatory comments on Spotify’s earnings call – especially around the creator economy
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The gamification of the music industry has just begun.
‘The worlds of music, video games, AV and the blockchain are becoming irreversibly entwined,’ suggests Ran Geffen
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Shy of retiring: when artists really need to be told to stop making albums
The latest column from long-time music industry journalist, Eamonn Forde
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Music piracy has plummeted in the past 5 years. But in 2021, it slowly started growing again.
New stats from MUSO offer food for thought for the global music business
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Sony generated $7.5bn across recorded music and publishing last year, up 24% YoY
Adele was, unsurprisingly, Sony’s biggest recorded music project in the last quarter of last year
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