Fine Line by Harry Styles was Sony Music’s biggest seller in calendar Q4 last year
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Grammys 2020 TV audience fell by over a million viewers versus last year, as just 5.4% of 18-to-49-year-olds tuned in
That’s the lowest percentage in key age bracket of all time
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SoundExchange paid out $908m to artists and labels in 2019
MBW’s estimates SoundExchange’s lifetime payouts to members have now reached approximately $7bn
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The Grammys fallout gets more shocking every day – but how relevant is the show to the modern record business?
MBW research suggests the famed ‘Grammy bump’ is weakening
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SoundCloud, with more than 200m tracks on its platform, saw annual revenues top $200m last year
Company gives update on 2019 as 2018 results are laid bare
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Music streaming needs to change. Is Amazon already ahead of the curve?
Record label executives in the United States could be forgiven for treating themselves this month. For a while now, fears have existed that audio streaming growth would start to slow in the U.S. If this tipping point happens — when this tipping point h…
US streams topped a trillion last year. But is there a superstar recession looming?
How, collectively, the world’s biggest megastars are losing streaming market share in the United States
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Tencent’s Move to Buy 10% of Universal Music Group Shows the Global Music Business Is In Excellent Health
Nue Agency founder Jesse Kirshbaum on the biggest music biz deal of the year
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UK record industry grew by over $100m last year – but is streaming starting to run out of steam?
Another big gain for key market – but first signs of a slowdown are on the cards
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How podcasts are damaging the potential growth of the recorded music business
Music streaming services – particularly Spotify – are morphing into something else entirely
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