The biggest stories of the past five days – and why they matter
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Category archives: Analysis
What would it really take to decentralize the music industry?
Revelator CEO and Founder Bruno Guez outlines what it would take to fully decentralize music
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Are we witnessing the death of the streaming megahit?
MBW analysis of MRC Data figures shows a dramatic reduction in streaming market share for Top 10 hits
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Over 66% of all music listening in the US is now of catalog records, rather than new releases
New MRC Data report shows how catalog has increased its dominance over new music in 2021
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TikTok is parking its tanks on YouTube’s lawn… as report says its users are more engaged than its rival’s
TikTok surpasses YouTube for average hours spent per month per user in both the US and the UK on Android
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Queen’s music is making crazy money. Could it be worth over a billion dollars?
MBW digs behind the finances of a band with true evergreen appeal
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From Kobalt’s profitability to Scooter Braun’s new job: It’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up
The biggest stories of the past five days – and why they matter
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Maneskin might be the music industry story of 2021… but they just split from their manager
Maneskin now count over 29m monthly listeners on Spotify
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The rise of Maneskin reminds the world of the power of Eurovision – and of Italian music.
“Does this signal the end of the Anglo-American dominance of popular music and a new-found pride for European countries in their domestic artists?”
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Let’s welcome Sony’s forward-thinking move on unrecouped artists. But let’s keep going.
Annabella Coldrick, the CEO of the Music Managers’ Forum, on the label policy that’s got the whole industry talking
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