Stat Of The Week: How indie acts are central to the strategies of China’s two biggest streaming music providers
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Thoughts of a Manager: A Paean for Artists
David Whitehead, an experienced artist manager who has managed the likes of David Bowie and David Byrne, lays it all out for the next generation
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Thoughts of a Manager: A Paean for Artists
David Whitehead, an experienced artist manager who has managed the likes of David Bowie and David Byrne, lays it all out for the next generation
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Could Epidemic Sound really be worth more than $1bn?
How Epidemic might pitch investors on its catalog, rather than its company
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Over 2bn YouTube users are now watching music videos every month
Lyor Cohen calls on music industry to link arm-in-arm with YouTube to “pitch Madison Avenue”
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Indie distribution giant Believe looks headed for a $2bn-plus IPO next year
Reuters report points to another potential ten-figure moment for the modern record business
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Refunds, revenues and redundancies: Behind the numbers of Live Nation’s Q3 earnings
What we learned from Michael Rapino and co. during firm’s quarterly fiscal update last week
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Spotify is testing price rises and paying labels billions – but, in alarming news for investors, it’s losing subscribers in emerging markets
MBW digs into the numbers behind Spotify’s newly-announced Q3 results – and discovers a surprising failure in the company’s mission to grow everywhere
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In torrid year for merch sales, Bravado CEO exits Universal Music Group
Stat Of The Week: Universal Music Group had its best ever quarter in Q3 2020, generating over $2bn… despite its merch division seeing revenues fall 44.4% year-on-year
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Universal Music Group just generated over a billion dollars from streaming in a single quarter… during a global pandemic
Vivendi-owned company has already posted over $400m more from streaming in 2020 than it did at the same stage of 2019
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