Tag: music publishing
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How completely has streaming transformed the music world? The platform rose from 7% of the U.S. market in 2010 to a whopping 83% by the end of 2020 — and… more ›
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Tech giant teams up with artist-services company UnitedMasters, an alternative to the major label system https://www.wsj.com/articles/apple-supports-independent-artists-with-new-investment-11617184804 more ›
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As record stores close and streaming algorithms dominate, the identities that music fandom supplies are in flux. Since streaming services have mostly supplanted record shops as the simplest way to… more ›
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Square, Inc., the financial services company founded by Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, is acquiring a majority stake in Tidal, the high-fidelity audio and video streaming service led by Jay-Z. https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/4/22313108/square-inc-tidal-majority-stake-jack-dorsey-jay-z more ›
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The MBW Review is where we aim our microscope towards some of the music biz’s biggest recent goings-on. This time, we take a closer look at new numbers just revealed… more ›
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Merck Mercuriadis had a good Christmas. On Christmas Day, the No 1 song in the UK was LadBaby’s Don’t Stop Me Eatin’, a novelty cover version of Journey’s 1981 soft-rock… more ›
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Music is TikTok’s universal language, each song representing a flourishing web of emotions, in-jokes, and dances. As the spaces where people normally enjoy music were impacted by the pandemic, TikTok… more ›
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For a music industry hobbled by a year of shuttered festivals, silent clubs, and canceled recording sessions—an industry that had generally been financially imperiled and uncertain since the invention of Napster—this… more ›
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The new model will be a big shift for SoundCloud, which currently utilizes a “pro-rata” model, the same method used by all major streaming services, pooling subscriber revenue and doling… more ›
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In this specific instance, there’s certainly a case to be made that Autoplay might actually be doing a service to the songs that it unintentionally favors — that it might… more ›