Filing in Korea reveals details of K-pop company’s stellar 2020 – despite the collapse of live concerts
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Category archives: Analysis
Universal’s Amsterdam adventure will leave even slender shareholders of Vivendi loaded
Vivendi is planning to distribute 60% equity in UMG to its shareholders. Here’s how the math works out.
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Investment funds forcing artists to name their price is… not a great idea.
Why calls for investors to learn of every detail of a songwriter buyout are badly misguided
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Music streaming must switch to a fair and logical payout model. There is no time to lose.
Didier Martin, CEO of France’s OuthereMusic, on why classical labels like his are crying out for a shift in the streaming payout model
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Triller is singing a dangerous song.
The TikTok rival’s latest words are strong – but are they true?
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How did Warner Music Group perform in the pandemic year of 2020?
In short: Streaming and publishing up, recorded music slightly down; overall, WMG was flat vs. calendar 2019
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YouTube generated nearly $20bn from ads last year – more than $54m per day
Annual figure was up by over $4.6bn year-on-year
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Spotify lost the equivalent of $2.2m every day in 2020… as it spent over $1bn on sales and marketing in the year
MBW shines the spotlight on SPOT’s 2020 fiscal results – on the black ink… and the red ink
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Sony Music revenues soared above $4.5bn in 2020, after huge final quarter of the year
Sony Music’s streaming revenues jumped by 19.5% in 2020, and by 26% in calendar Q4
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What now for Kobalt? The small matter of a $500m-a-year publishing company, for starters…
Following the sale of AWAL and Kobalt Neighbouring Rights, where does Willard Ahdritz’s company go from here?
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