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Native Instruments and iZotope: creator tools major in the making

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

11 Mar 2021

At the start of the year private equity firm Francisco Partners acquired a majority stake in creator tools stalwart Native Instruments. It always looked like it was going to be the start of something big...

Women making music: The COVID impact

Blog post by Hanna Kahlert

8 Mar 2021

Music

women in music

international womens day

The last 12 months have been marked mostly by the coronavirus pandemic, which has pushed much of life to the digital world. 70% of independent artists overall spent much of the time over lockdowns creating...

The music business in 2021: Joining the dots

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

4 Mar 2021

Music

Cultural Trends

It has been one of those weeks, with impactful music business announcements coming thick and fast. As is often the case, a succession of apparently unrelated events actually have a connecting thread. In...

Smaller independents and artists direct grew fastest in 2020

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

1 Mar 2021

Spotify

streaming music

independent labels

Last year we identified a small but crucial metric from Spotify’s annual report: the share of all streams accounted for by majors and independent licensing body Merlin. It was crucial because it enabled...

Clubhouse and the next evolution of audio

Blog post by Hanna Kahlert

23 Feb 2021

Music

Media and Marketing

Audio has seen an overall boom during the last year , with audiobooks alone significantly gaining consumer attention time and attracting audience over from radio. Podcasts have also grown in the lockdown...

Last call for the global independent label survey

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

18 Feb 2021

Independent label survey

label survey

independent labels

With 2020 now comfortably behind us and public companies in their earnings cycle, a clear picture is starting to emerge of how the global recorded music market performed. MIDiA is midway through fielding...

Taylor Swift and the changing tide of artist power

Blog post by Hanna Kahlert

16 Feb 2021

Music

Media and Marketing

Cultural Trends

In the latest episode of a long-running feud between Taylor Swift and Big Machine Records, the western princess turned pop icon is releasing the first of her original re-recorded albums under her own ownership....

New artists, does it pay to be streaming first?

Blog post by Keith Jopling

10 Feb 2021

Strategy

Marketing

streaming music

This is part 2 of my "marketing long read" posts, part 1 focused on Catalogue . In a recent interview with Steve Lamacq, Dave Grohl of the Foo Fighters told him “We don’t have anyone else making decisions...

Sony just became (even more of) an independent powerhouse

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

1 Feb 2021

AWAL

Kobalt

Sony Music

Sony Music has bought AWAL (and Kobalt Neighbouring Rights) from Kobalt for $430 million . By adding AWAL to its already-booming Orchard division (as well as other distribution companies), it now has leading...

Equitable remuneration, artist income and unintended consequences

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

29 Jan 2021

Streaming economy

streaming inquiry

equitable remuneration

The UK Parliament’s inquiry on the economics of streaming appears to be building a case for equitable remuneration (ER). There are many iterations of what ER can mean, but a simplified description of...

Women making music

Blog post by Hanna Kahlert

28 Jan 2021

Music

Women

diversity

Even taking into account the impact of the pandemic, it has never been a better time for independent creators in the music business. The various 2020 lockdowns may have prevented artists from earning vital...

Songs are the golden eggs in music catalogues, but who is looking after the goose?

Blog post by Keith Jopling

20 Jan 2021

Strategy

music catalogue

Marketing

Marketing Long Read Part 1: Catalogue & Song Management It will not have escaped your attention that music catalogues are changing hands for serious sums of money. The race to acquire the songwriters’...

Music has developed an attention dependency

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

15 Jan 2021

Music

The attention economy defines and shapes today’s digital world. However, we have long since reached peak in the attention economy with all available free time now addressed. What this means is that previously,...

What measures an artist's success in today's music industry?

Blog post by Keith Jopling

23 Dec 2020

Strategy

Media

streaming music

It’s that time of year again for lists. Endless top albums and song rankings that can be a bonus for a music artist to be included on. A placement on an influential list (which ones those are is more...

Global independent label survey

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

14 Dec 2020

Music

MIDiA Research is conducting a major study of independent label revenue in order to create a definitive review of the independent sector’s contribution to the global music market. MIDiA conducted this...

Pandemic boom fuels creator tools growth

Blog post by Dara Jegede

30 Nov 2020

Music

- A new generation of artists is engendering a new creative paradigm, where production is far more central to the creative process and artists are able to make and release high-quality music more quickly...

Time to move beyond the song economy

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

27 Nov 2020

Music

The UK parliament is currently running an inquiry into the streaming music economy, having called for evidence from across the music business. Earlier this week were the first verbal submissions, from...

YouTube at two billion: Still much more music opportunity to be had

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

17 Nov 2020

Music

YouTube just announced its milestone of reaching two billion music users on the platform . YouTube has long been the largest music service on the planet, and it has just extended that lead. In 2019, its...

Catch up with MIDiA's post-pandemic programming podcast series

Blog post by Dara Jegede

11 Nov 2020

Video

Music

Games

MIDiA has long said that podcasts are a rising force in the audio entertainment market – and we’ve put our efforts where our insights are, launching our first podcast series. Our episodes are now available...

Live streaming centre stage for 2021

Blog post by Keith Jopling

2 Nov 2020

live streaming

live music

Live music industry

The longer the pandemic continues, the harder it gets for the live music business (and other cultural sectors built around live performance) to sustain hope of a ‘return to normal’. I hate saying it,...

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