From Sony’s $2.5bn spent in the past year to UMG’s Patrick Whitesell JV… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up
Welcome to Music Business Worldwide’s weekly round-up – where we make sure you caught the five biggest stories to hit our headlines ...
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New York Knicks Fans Sick After Indiana Pacers Send Their Beloved Knickerbockers Packing For A Second Straight Year
Source: Getty Images / Indiana Pacers / New York Knicks It’s no longer orange and blue skies after the NBA’s ...
Live Nation posts Q1 revenue decline, but says 2025 will be ‘historic year for live music’
Concert giant and Ticketmaster owner Live Nation says 2025 is shaping up to be a boom year in stadium shows, ...
Sony Music Publishing wins 2025 Publisher of the Year at ASCAP Pop Music Awards
Sony Music Publishing and its songwriters were recognized for their achievements in pop music at ASCAP’s 2025 Pop Music Awards ...
Oscar Höglund talks Epidemic Sound’s revenue growth and vast reach: ‘We get roughly 3bn daily views. That’s 20 Super Bowls per day, 365 days per year.’
MBW’s World Leaders is a regular series in which we spotlight some of the most influential industry figures overseeing key ...
22,100 artists generated over $50k on Spotify last year. The company argues that ‘way more artists are generating meaningful money now than in any previous era of the music industry’.
There are two ways to look at how much artists are earning on Spotify.On the one hand, more artists than ...
12m artists uploaded music to Spotify last year. Less than 0.6% generated $10,000 or more in royalties
MBW’s Stat Of The Week is a series in which we highlight a data point that deserves the attention of ...
Superstruct revenues jumped 26% to $222m in 2023 – the year before it was acquired by KKR in a $1.4bn deal
Live music events organizer and promoter Superstruct Entertainment reported a 25.9% YoY increase in revenue for 2023 – the year ...
Sony’s music rights business generated over $10bn for the first ever year in 2024; firm’s outgoing CEO, Kenichiro Yoshida, applauds EMI buy as best of his tenure
Sony’s global music copyright business surpassed a significant financial milestone in the calendar year of 2024, according to MBW calculations.The ...
The major record companies lost market share again on Spotify last year. But BMG and ‘artist-centric royalties’ make this a more complicated picture than it first appears.
It’s one of the most interesting charts in the music biz.Each year, via its annual 20-F filing with the SEC, ...
