Cooper responds to Spotify’s confirmation that it will be raising some prices in key markets, including the US
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Category archives: Analysis
Is a reckoning coming to the way collection societies spend songwriters’ money?
Stat Of The Week: Why new data from PRS For Music and GEMA may raise alarm on Wall Street
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Goldman Sachs: Universal is worth over $50bn, and global music streaming revenues will rise $3bn this year
Latest Music In The Air report has been obtained by MBW – and it’ll put a spring in the industry’s step
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Spotify’s average subscriber is now paying less than $5 per month
Bang goes the ARPU (again), as SPOT reveals figure fell to just €4.12 in the first three months of 2021
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Netflix is going ‘wobbly’ without fresh hits. The music industry is learning to live with the same problem.
Netflix is relying on classic movies, rather than new ones. Meanwhile, the music industry is saying: “Hasta la vista, ARPU.”
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Apple Music just made a lot of claims about what it pays artists. Let’s take a closer look.
A new email from Apple has revealed some big numbers, and a couple of digs at Spotify. MBW gives its take.
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TikTok users watch the app for an average of 89 minutes per day – and there’s 732m of them worldwide
Leaked pitch deck reveals a slew of the Bytedance app’s key numbers in 2021
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‘Popularity is by far the biggest determinant of success in streaming, just as it has been for every recorded format before it.’
The BPI’s Geoff Taylor puts across his point of view on the UK’s current streaming inquiry
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From Scooter Braun’s billion-dollar deal to Apple’s backing of UnitedMasters: It’s MBW’s Weekly Round-up
The biggest music industry stories of the week, all in one place
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Universal Music Group is raising $3.5 billion in financing. Will a spending spree follow?
MBW obtains new UMG org chart, showing the importance of its Dutch company
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