Music Rights Disruption The Transparency Agenda
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The 20,000 Foot View: Music rights have never been simple but now the complexity is reaching such a level that the digital music marketplace is beginning to buckle under the strain. With growing demand across the board for increased transparency, effectiveness and speed, the music rights landscape is facing an unprecedented period of innovation and disruption. Traditional incumbents and technology companies alike are all pursuing their own solutions to what is in fact an intertwined mesh of challenges. Right now, the result is paradoxically more complex, not less.
Key Findings
- Increased reporting transparency expectations from artists and and changing regulatory environments are music rights innovation
- Global music revenues grew by million in to reach billion
- Music publishing were larger in 2016 than compared to growth for recorded over the same periodÂ
- Declining mechanical focused publishers’ attentions on streaming
- Independent publishers for of publishing revenues in up from in 2012
- Companies like and BMG Music Rights are innovation, competing across as both and music publishers
- There are types of rights disruptors: next music companies, established alternatives, music pivots, news disruptors and PRO
- Following the of the Global Repertoire Database is now a music database race
- Collection societies facing intensified competition from commercial management companies
- Google could use YouTube to pioneer a music right
Companies and brands mentioned in this report: ADA, AMRA, AMSGE, Apple, Audiam, Blackstone Capital, BMAT, BMG Music Rights, Caroline, Cooking Vinyl, Downtown Music, Dubsmash, Epidemic Sounds, Essential Music, Fintage House, GEMA, Google, HFA, Jukedeck, Kobalt, Medianet, Musical.ly, Music Reports Inc, Ninja Tune, Platoon, PRSfM, RED, Rights Flow, Rumblefish, SESAC, Socan, Sony ATV, Sony Music, Soundreef, Spotify, SUISA, The European Commission, Twitter, Universal Music, Universal Music Publishing, Warner Chappell, Warner Music, WARP, YouTube