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(Hypebot) — MIDiA and TuneCore/Believe have released a new study on women creators that highlights the challenges, experiences, and ambitions in today’s music ...
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MIDiA Analysis: IFPI Confirms 7.4% Global Recorded Music Revenue Growth
(Hypebot) — Mark Mulligan of MIDiA digs into the new IFPI report that showed a 7.4% growth in recorded music revenue, which confirms ...
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Connecting The Music Business Dots In 2021
(Hypebot) — After a dizzying week of major music industry milestones, announcements, and acquisitions, MIDiA’s top analyst Mark Mulligan makes sense of it ...
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Independent Artists And Smaller Labels Grew Fastest In 2020 [Mark Mulligan]
(Hypebot) — “The headline is that independents as a whole grew market share in 2020 from 29.7% to 31.1%,” writes MIDiA top analyst Mark ...
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Is Instagram In Danger Of Irrelevance?
(Hypebot) — Instagram is getting cluttered and confusing, writes MIDiA analyst Hanna Kahlert, in large part because it borrows too many ‘good ideas’ from ...
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“YouTube is becoming more important to music than music is to YouTube,” says MIDiA’s Mark Mulligan
(Hypebot) — YouTube announced that it now has 2 billion music users, but the music industry is not taking full advantage of the ...
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Is Spotify’s Growth Coming At The Expense Of Creators And Rightsholders?
(Hypebot) — Spotify’s premium revenue growth continues to trail subscriber increases, according to its latest report to investors. That has top MIDiA analyst Mark ...
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Best of Times, Worst of Times: Independent Musicians In The Pandemic [MIDiA Survey]
(Hypebot) — A new MIDiA survey of unsigned musicians unpacks their scrappy and resilient ethos and the strategies they’ve developed to move forward ...
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Listening Anxiety: Struggling With An Overwhelming Flood Of New Music
(Hypebot) — With an estimated 40,000 tracks uploaded to Spotify every single day, it’s impossible to keep up. Will this glut of new ...
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Are Livestreams Now Music’s Primary Format and Artist Revenue Stream?
(Hypebot) — As COVID-19 drags on more musicians are turning to live streaming to connect with fans and earn at least some revenue. ...
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