China’s NetEase Cloud Music, with over 800m users, gains rights to use 1.3m Warner Chappell songs

Deal comes as Tencent exclusivity deals are said to be expected to expire over next two years
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Michael Rapino talks cost-cutting, fan-less concerts, and pressing pause on Live Nation’s big Mexico deal

The five things you need to know about the live giant’s Q1 earnings
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‘Ultimately our people, our human capital, is the most important asset of our business, and we need to take care of it.’

Denis Ladegaillerie, Believe CEO, on what his company has done during COVID lockdown – and why
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Warner Music Group boss Steve Cooper talks COVID-19, streaming subscriptions… and that delayed IPO

MBW delves deeper into Warner’s calendar Q1 results
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Stat Of The Week: People over 45, not Millennials, are driving music subscription growth in the UK

No less than 60% of new subscribers in the past year were 45 or older
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Global recorded music industry revenues topped $20bn last year – but streaming growth slowed

The global recorded music industry generated $20.2bn in wholesale revenues – that’s the money making its way back to labels and artists – in 2019. This figure was up 8.2% on the prior year ($18.7bn), according to official industry data revealed i…

Daniel Ek says Spotify’s subscription growth is increasing. But that’s not true in monetary terms.

It all depends on whether you’re counting heads, or you’re counting money
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YouTube is generating $32k every minute – but how much of that money is being driven by music?

Data from Pex gives us clues as to how much money YouTube pays out to the music business in ad revenue
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‘I was recently fired by a client while on maternity leave. It’s happened to me exactly twice.’

Jess Keeley on being “professionally punished” for having children – and how the music business needs to change
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