Figure is more than 30 million MAUs smaller than Pandora’s audience in late 2014
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Category archives: Analysis
Why ingesting 100,000 tracks a day may not prove sustainable for Spotify’s business in the long-term.
Why it’s worth keeping an eye on Spotify’s hosting costs as over 100 million tracks a day hit streaming platforms
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Amazon expands Prime member music access to catalog of 100m songs
Catalog access increases from 2m to 100m songs for Prime members
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Sony generated $2.15bn from recorded music and publishing in calendar Q3 – up 16.4% year-on-year
Beyoncé’s RENAISSANCE was Sony Music’s biggest-selling recorded music project in calendar Q3 2022
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Sir Lucian Grainge on the dilution of the majors’ music on streaming platforms, TikTok’s future and more
Grainge participated in a Q&A on Universal Music Group’s Q3 earnings call last week
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From UMG’s 13.3% YoY revenue growth in Q3 to Spotify’s 7m new subscribers… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up
Our biggest stories of the week, brought to you in association with Centtrip
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Taylor Swift’s Midnights (3am Edition) has generated over $1.3m in sales on Tencent’s QQ Music in China
Midnights continues to perform well in China
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Universal generated nearly $1 billion from subscription streaming in Q3, as overall revenues grew 13.3% YoY
UMG published its financial results for the three months to end of September 2022
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HODL the Line: The future of Web3 in the music industry
Gregor Pryor, Head of Entertainment & Media at law firm Reed Smith, explores the future of Web3 investment in the music industry
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YouTube’s Q3 ad revenue slides 1.9% YoY amid ‘shift in user behavior’
YouTube ad revenue in Q3 came in at $7.07 billion
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