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Misaligned incentives make the music business a zero-sum game

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Blog post by Tatiana Cirisano

17 Aug 2023

streaming services

“Pop Stars Aren’t Popping Like They Used To”, Billboard ’s Elias Leight writes in a recent article, in which record label executives stress over the struggle to break new artists. The article (or...

How live music will change in the next decade

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Blog post by Tatiana Cirisano

20 Jul 2023

The pandemic sent shock waves through the live music industry — a historic, catastrophic disruption to a decades-old business. But just because touring is back, does not mean that we are in the clear....

Right place, right time: Taylor Swift's track to the first $1 billion tour

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Blog post by Tatiana Cirisano

29 Jun 2023

music marketing

Another day, another record for Taylor Swift. As Wall Street Journal broke down this week, the superstar is now on track to achieve the first $1 billion tour in music history. A billion factors and decisions...

Who tomorrow's music business is being built for

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Blog post by Tatiana Cirisano

22 Jun 2023

Product Strategy

The creator tools industry, meaning the market for music-making hardware and software, has historically served as the funnel to the recorded music industry. At the centre of that industry are big record...

What ‘Barbie’, ‘The Idol’, and more say about the future of artists in film

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Blog post by Tatiana Cirisano

8 Jun 2023

music publishing

2023 is already shaping up to be another big year for music artists in Hollywood. Late last month, Jack Harlow made his acting debut in a Hulu remake of 1992 basketball comedy White Men Can’t Jump ....

UMG, Endel, and the case for labels in the AI space

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Blog post by Tatiana Cirisano

1 Jun 2023

Universal Music Group

Warner Music Group

The flood of new music created using artificial intelligence (AI) will further erode major label market share, and some label executives’ recent comments about the value of human-made music seem to put...

Why the creator tools and services market is bigger than you think (and it is not AI)

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Blog post by Tatiana Cirisano

10 May 2023

creator economy

One of the biggest stories of the past few years is the rise of self-releasing artists, who number 6.4 million in 2022, a 16.8% growth from 2021. Everyone wants a piece of that growth, which is part of...

Why AI generation might be just what music needs

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Blog post by Tatiana Cirisano

25 Apr 2023

artificial intelligence

Music Streaming

In her hit ‘Saoko’, Rosalía celebrates her multi-dimensionality, singing (translated from Spanish): “I contradict myself, I transform / I’m everything, I transform”. As artists navigate the...

Why AI music may make fandom even more important

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Blog post by Tatiana Cirisano

22 Mar 2023

artificial intelligence

fragmented fandom

Artificial intelligence (AI) was as hot a topic as ever at last week’s SXSW conference, where debate swirled around how human artists will compete with AI-generated music. As more parts of music-making...

Should streaming take a cue from TikTok’s revamped creator program?

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Blog post by Tatiana Cirisano

23 Feb 2023

Music Streaming

A year ago, VidCon co-founder and vlogger Hank Green posted a viral YouTube video lambasting TikTok’s $1 billion Creator Fund, claiming it delivered chump change to videos with millions of views. The...

At the Grammys and Super Bowl, the last hurrah of the mainstream era

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Blog post by Tatiana Cirisano

14 Feb 2023

Rihanna’s performance at the Super Bowl LVII over the weekend was remarkable for several reasons, but most of all was that she had not performed a show at this scale in seven long years. “The wait...

With its Australia experiment, TikTok gives the music industry the ultimate test

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Blog post by Tatiana Cirisano

9 Feb 2023

independent music

Licensing negotiations between platforms and the music industry come down to one question: which side needs the other more? The more that TikTok needs hit music to attract users, the more leverage the...

Music discovery in 2023 is about the journey, not the moment

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Blog post by Tatiana Cirisano

12 Jan 2023

Music Streaming

Oversaturation was among the hottest music industry topics of 2022. By now, we have all read — and maybe gasped at — the recent estimate that more than 100,000 new songs hit streaming services daily....

The record labels’ TikTok opportunity cost

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Blog post by Tatiana Cirisano

22 Nov 2022

Music Streaming

With their short-term music licensing agreements soon to expire, record labels are reportedly pressuring TikTok to sign an ad revenue share agreement, which would see TikTok pay a share of advertising...

YouTube's secret weapon for overtaking Spotify

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Blog post by Tatiana Cirisano

22 Sep 2022

creator economy

YouTube has not been quiet about its ambitions to overtake Spotify as the music industry’s top revenue driver by 2025. The clock is ticking, and although YouTube is the most popular platform for music...

Beatport’s LabelRadar acquisition is the latest sign of the platforms era

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Blog post by Tatiana Cirisano

22 Jul 2022

This week, online music marketplace Beatport acquired LabelRadar, a service that streamlines the demo submission process for artists and labels. Following previous strategic acquisitions, the deal represents...

A counterculture music industry is emerging — welcome to the platform era

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Blog post by Tatiana Cirisano

5 Jul 2022

What do TikTok’s distribution tool , Universal Music Group’s samples marketplace , and Snoop Dogg’s virtual marijuana have in common? On the surface, not much. But beneath, these news headlines are...

Reflections on the music industry at NFT.NYC

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Blog post by Tatiana Cirisano

23 Jun 2022

At the fourth annual NFT.NYC conference in New York, the sentiment fell somewhere between faint excitement and “so this is still a thing, right?” Unlike this time last year, when the music industry...

The record label addiction to virality is about the attention recession, too

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Blog post by Tatiana Cirisano

26 May 2022

Content Creators

creator economy

In a painfully-of-the-moment twist of irony, Halsey went viral on TikTok this week for speaking out about the pressure to do just that. “Basically I have a song that I love that I wanna release ASAP,...

Is TikTok becoming a record label? The question misses the point

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Blog post by Tatiana Cirisano

18 May 2022

Music Streaming

Every time TikTok does anything that seems to hedge on record label territory, someone inevitably asks the question: is TikTok turning into a record label? Cue the eye-rolls from the music industry. No...

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