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congratulations to becky hill on second brit award!

Emerging Behaviour

Feb 12
1 min

congratulations to becky hill on second brit award!

Congratulations to Becky Hill, AM Music Management & Team Polydor on Becky's second Brit win for Best Dance Act. Wonderful to be a small part of it and always great to win in a fan voted category. #beckyhill #brits #ammanagement #polydorrecords #musicindustry

Emerging Behaviour

Feb 9
1 min

'fixing' the streaming problem

Super insightful piece on how the music industry might try and fix the streaming problem, in principle streaming is the ideal model for consumers - all you can eat music for a relatively low price but with too much music being uploaded and not enough $$$ for the various stakeholders (songwriters / artists etc) Mark Mulligan sees how it could be fixed.. Read all about here Photo c/o Eric Nopanen #streaming #musicindustry #markmulligan #artists #publishing

Emerging Behaviour

Jan 5
1 min

Music consumption was up in 2o22

The figures are in and music consumption was up over 4% in 2022 which is good news for the industry, could this figure be attributed to the overall volume of albums being released into the market as album sales on an artist by artist basis feel like they're down, the indie sector once again increases its market share, read all about at Musically here #bpi #musicindustry #sales

Emerging Behaviour

Apr 22, 2021
1 min

netflix wobble but revenues up

Great article on slowing Netflix subscriber figures on the back of a lack of big hits on the platform due to production stopping due to covid despite this revenues are up whilst over in the music industry subscriptions are up but revenues are down. Read more about it at MBW #netflix #musicindustry #streaming

Emerging Behaviour

Apr 6, 2021
1 min

the weeknd nft collection nets $2.29m

The streets are paved with NFTs, that certainly seems to be the current thinking in the Music Industry with The Weeknd's weekend booty from his first NFT sale is a staggering $2.29m with an unreleased song going for nearly $500k. The flood gates are open... Read all about it here. #emergingbehaviour #nfts #theweeknd #musicindustry

Big year for the us music industry but has it peaked

Emerging Behaviour

Mar 2, 2021
1 min

Big year for the us music industry but has it peaked

Last year was another bumper year for the US music industry with revenue of over $12 billion dollars and the biggest leap in subscriptions of any year however there is a caveat, the subscription price per head is coming down due to telco offers, the Spotify free tier and family bundles meaning the overall revenue from streaming is dropping. Have things peaked? Read more about it here.. #emergingbehaviour #streaming #musicindustry

amazon is in the live-streaming business.

Emerging Behaviour

Sep 2, 2020
1 min

amazon is in the live-streaming business.

Amazon has got a head start on its rivals but making the Twitch live streaming functionality available via Amazon Music enabling artists to connect directly with fans. Full details here #emergingbehaviour #amazon #amazonmusic #livestream #musicindustry

AWAL release statement on artist earnings

Emerging Behaviour

Aug 20, 2020
1 min

AWAL release statement on artist earnings

AWAL's latest press release stating that hundreds of their artists are now earning over a $100,000 a year on the platform is getting a lot of attention once more showing a shift in the way artists can manage their careers and keeping their copyright. Full article at MBW here #emergingbehaviour #awal #musicindustry #distribution

Emerging Behaviour

Aug 16, 2020
1 min

WAVO - Marketing and analytics

WAVO are getting a lot pf press for their innovative new platform allowing global users to harness their global advertising and analytics platform to drive effective advertising and fan conversion. Read about it here #emergingbehaviour #wavo #musicindustry

Emerging Behaviour

Aug 13, 2020
1 min

Listening anxiety

We've all felt it, too much music, too little time, interesting article about having too much choice...here #emergingbehaviour #musicindustry #musicmarketing

Emerging Behaviour

Aug 10, 2020
1 min

two months after black out tuesday...

Rather sobering article on Rolling Stone about the action the Music Industry has / hasn't taken since Black Out Tuesday, read here. #emergingbehaviour #rollingstone #blackouttuesday #musicindustry

Emerging Behaviour

Jul 24, 2020
1 min

music x corona

Those nice people over at the always informative Music x Corona have kindly compiled all the articles on the knock on the effects of the Corona virus on the Music Industry. Check it out here #emergingbehaviour #corona #musicindustry #resource #musicxcorona

Emerging Behaviour

Jul 20, 2020
1 min

Kanye for president

Kanye West launched his bid for the presidency last night at a slightly shambolic press conference in Charleston, no one seems to be sure whether it's for real or a publicity stunt. Full details here #emergingbehaviour #musicindustry #kanyewest #politics

INSTAGRAM's 'REEls' launching to take on tiktok

Emerging Behaviour

Jul 17, 2020
1 min

INSTAGRAM's 'REEls' launching to take on tiktok

Facebook is prepping to launch 'Reels' a 15 sec video format with music that can be shared to Instagram stories, it will be interesting to see take up and if there's any cannibalisation of TikTok. Both platforms have been under scrutiny over the last few weeks. Full details here #emergingbehaviour #reels #instagram #tiktok #musicindustry

US STREAMING Half term report... and the winner is..

Emerging Behaviour

Jul 16, 2020
1 min

US STREAMING Half term report... and the winner is..

Nielsen music have shared their data on the biggest streaming hits of the year in the US and its no surprises that hip-hop dominates, with seven of the biggest tracks by rap artists. Check out here #emerginbehaviour #streaming #neilsen #usa #musicindustry

Emerging Behaviour

Jul 14, 2020
1 min

HOW HITS HAVE CHANGED...

Another fascinating article from Midia examining how hits have changed over the last 20 years, no surprises then they've got shorter, there's more writers and a featured artist is now an important part of the mix. Read all about it here #emergingbehaviour #midia #musicindustry #hits

Emerging Behaviour

Jun 11, 2020
1 min

ZYNN removed from google play store

We've only just posted about the new app Zynn that was looking to be a TikTok rival, well its already been pulled from the Google Play Store after reports or plagiarism, with some TikTok accounts being copied straight over to the platform. Full article here #emergingbehaviour #tiktok #googleplay #zynn #musicindustry

Emerging Behaviour

Jun 3, 2020
1 min

Music industry to decline

Mark Mulligan has crunched the numbers and its looks like that the global music industry will go into decline this year due to the pandemic. Live, Publishing, Merch & Sponsorship all taking heavy hits. Read the full article here #emergingbehaviour #musicindustry

Emerging Behaviour

May 25, 2020
1 min

Poland's disappearing #1

Fascinating article c/o the New York Times about Polish rock legend Kazik Staszewski's latest single "Your Pain Is Better Than Mine" being pulled from the #1 position on the state owned "Radio Three Chart" show with ensuing cries of censorship. Read the full article here #emergingbehaviour #musicindustry #poland #censorship

Spotify signs joe rogan podcast exclusively.

Emerging Behaviour

May 21, 2020
1 min

Spotify signs joe rogan podcast exclusively.

The battle for supremacy in the podcast world continues with Spotify signing up Joe Rogan's massive "The Joe Rogan Experience" podcast exclusively to Spotify from the end of this year. It will be interesting to see how this pans out and if podcast listenership will erode music streaming as current research is predicting. Watch this space. For the full details read here #emergingbehaviour #spotify #podcasts #musicindustry

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