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Music is not a level playing field — it is a field of all levels

Blog post by Tatiana Cirisano

18 Aug 2022

We have heard it (and said it) many times before: the music industry has never been as competitive as it is today. But the challenge is not just that today’s landscape is ultra-competitive, it is also...

Is the catalogue acquisition market betting tomorrow's success on yesterday's metrics?

Blog post by Tatiana Cirisano

5 Apr 2022

music industry

music industry investment

music catalogue

The music industry spent $5.3 billion on music catalogue acquisitions in 2021, according to MIDiA's most recent market report , not counting another $6.7 billion that was invested into music companies...

What the boom in young artist catalogue sales says about the music market

Blog post by Tatiana Cirisano

11 Feb 2022

music catalogue

music catalogue M+A

streaming music

The catalogue-sales boom is one of the most talked about music trends of the past two years. Most of the conversation has, understandably, revolved around aging icons, like Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen,...

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 Publishing and the Catalogue Question

Blog post by Zach Fuller

29 Jul 2019

music catalogue

music publishing

recorded music

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." Somewhere in a field back in the summer of 2008, Rage Against the Machine used this line as the bridge in their...

Yesterday: The Beatles and the Economics of Music Catalogue

Blog post by Zach Fuller

5 Jul 2019

danny boyle

music catalogue

music publishing

The release of Yesterday this week, a film about an aspiring musician who one day discovers he is the only person in the world who remembers The Beatles is an interest test-case for catalogue in the streaming...

The Limitations of Music Streaming’s Globalising of Revenue

Blog post by Zach Fuller

12 Apr 2019

music catalogue

music streaming

Spotify

One of music streaming’s great promises is that it creates a more globalised industry. In many ways it is delivering: revenues are rising in markets previously deemed problematic to conduct business...

Music Catalogue and Streaming

Blog post by Zach Fuller

18 May 2018

music catalogue

rhino entertainment

When it comes to the music industry’s transition towards streaming, how the model has worked in the past requires a reconsideration of perspective. This is because throughout the business’s entire...