Spotify, Apple, and YouTube contributed 42% of Warner Music Group’s annual revenues in FY2021 between them
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Category archives: Analysis
Latin Grammys cap a blockbuster year for Latin Music
Research and revenues highlight music’s fastest growing genre
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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.
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Wax on, wax off: unblocking the great vinyl logjam
Columnist Eamonn Forde’s 12-point checklist to fix the vinyl backlog
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From the Astroworld tragedy to Universal’s new virtual band – It’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up
The music industry’s biggest few stories from the past week, and why they matter
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TikTok and social media’s explosion in music is only going to get louder
WeGenerate’s Luka Zak on how short-form video and new social media platforms are transforming the industry
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YouTube’s ads business is now bigger than the entire global record business
MBW predicts that YouTube’s ad revenues could breach the $30 billion mark this year alone
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Sony Music’s quarterly streaming revenues burst above $1bn for the first time
MBW breaks down the numbers in an historic quarter for Rob Stringer’s major
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Is Universal Music Group going to post a $2bn EBITDA profit this year?
UMG announces another impressive set of quarterly results – this time as a public company
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Warner Music Group is worth $10bn more than it was a year ago
Universal stays above $50 billion… as its rival’s market worth goes gangbusters
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