MBW crunches the 2021 numbers, and discovers a banner year for music’s biggest players
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Netflix raises prices in the US (again). Will Spotify refuse to follow (again)?
Netflix has raised its prices six times since 2014. Spotify has not kept up.
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Over 82% of the US music market is now claimed by catalog records, rather than new releases
MBW’s analysis of latest MRC Data numbers show that less than a fifth of US market in H2 2021 was made up of new releases
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Goldman Sachs: Universal is worth over $50bn, and global music streaming revenues will rise $3bn this year
Latest Music In The Air report has been obtained by MBW – and it’ll put a spring in the industry’s step
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The US recorded music industry grew by over $1bn in 2020 – but faces big challenges over streaming’s pricing, and its future
The RIAA’s latest figures show a surging streaming market – with one notable cause for concern
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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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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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Is Len Blavatnik about to complete the shrewdest deal in the history of the record business?
The case for Len Blavatnik having made the smartest acquisitive move in record industry history
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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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What Netflix’s ‘choose-your-own-soundtrack’ paradigm reveals about the future of the music industry
If movies become more interactive on our televisions, what will it mean for licensing?
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