theft of intellectual property, illicit sharing and how social media companies "work off our original music". Load-shedding, regularly scheduled power cuts due to a creaking power infrastructure, was often mentioned. Power problems particularly affect music whose largest potential audiences are in towns...
WMX provides advertisers access to the biggest international and South African music artists via commercial targeting, sponsorship and content opportunities. WMX is the artist services, commerce, content and media division within Warner Music Group (WMG), one of the largest recording companies in the...
I mean at one of the companies I worked for I had on my roster as an A&R man, 55 separate songwriters. Okay some of those were with the same band but all in all there are only so many hours in the day and so many days in the year so it’s a hard job that people don’t ...
Ditto. The last time I heard of a "world music boom" was in the Eighties when Island and a host of other adventurous record companies signed African artists hoping to find "the new Bob Marley". It didn't happen. Hmm.Yet, in a way, he was right. There is an upsurge of sales, ...
Statistics on " Music industry in the U.S. " Global market overview U.S. market overview Digital music sales Music streaming Concert business Record companies Consumption The most important statistics Global revenue of the recorded music industry 1999-2023 Global digital music revenue 2004-2023 ...
online algorithms. According to contractual agreements and royalty agreements, various companies may be qualified to receive royalty payments. The record label, the publishers, the copyright holders, the performers, and their managers, executives, and agents are all included in this group of ...
Mdundo’s growth has primarily been achieved in Nigeria, with additional growth in Tanzania, Kenya, and Ghana. The music service has primarily been focusing on securing music rights for local African catalog and has in the last year announced partnerships with leading telecomm...
That means Spotify's first task as it implements a plan announced in February to almost double its footprint is to win over the telecom companies that often equate to banks. Phiona Okumu, Spotify's head of music for Sub-Saharan Africa, told Reuters the company secured 'alternative payment me...
Q2 24 was another quarter of solid growth across the wider music industry with leading labels, publishers, DSPs, and live music companies all registering growth once more. Total revenue across the fifteen leading music companies tracked by MIDiA were up 9.6% in Q2 2024, to reach $20.7 billio...