Across all formats, genre claimed 4.31% share in the first half of 2019
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Entertainment Is Getting Even Shorter, And Even Longer. What About The ‘Purgatory’ In The Middle?
Cherie Hu tackles changing trends in audio-visual media
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After Spotify and Universal, could Tencent buy its way even further into the music business?
Will $430bn-valued Tencent want a piece of Sony, Warner, BMG or Kobalt?
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Apple wanted to improve songwriter pay to $0.00091 per stream. Spotify and Google weren’t keen.
Historical filings show why Spotify believes “lower royalty rates are critical” to the service’s future
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Taylor Swift’s Lover: A lightning rod for a record industry struggling to define its own success
MBW takes a long, hard look at one of the biggest albums of the year so far
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With $1bn in annual sales in BMG’s sights, Hartwig Masuch questions ‘irrational’ cost structure of traditional labels
BMG’s boss discusses his confidence in his own company… and his lack of confidence elsewhere
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Industry revenues in Japan, world’s second biggest recorded music market, didn’t grow in H1 2019
Audio subscription revenues made up 12.4% of Japan’s total recorded music revenues in H1 2019; physical audio formats contributed 53.3%.
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How is Taylor Swift’s new album Lover performing on Spotify?
Swift’s new record trumps Ed Sheeran’s latest LP (just) – but not Ariana Grande’s
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All Eyez on eOne: Is the music industry’s next big money sell-off imminent?
After being snapped up for just $6.6m in 2013, is Death Row Records about to be acquired again?
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Apple Music Connect: What could it have become if it wasn’t scrapped?
Had Apple committed to its social media platform a little more, could it have taken on Insta and TikTok?
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