MBW10: A Decade of Headlines That Formed the Fashionable Music Business
When Music Enterprise Worldwide launched in 2015, streaming was nonetheless combating to show itself. Spotify had but to show a revenue, Apple Music didn’t exist, and the recorded music business was nonetheless nursing wounds from a decade of decline.
So much has modified.
Right now, MBW celebrates a milestone: ten years masking probably the most dynamic sectors of worldwide leisure.
We accomplish that through MBW10: 2015-2025: a specifically curated retrospective journal that chronicles the seismic shifts, landmark offers, and defining moments which have formed the music enterprise throughout the previous decade.
From the explosion of catalog acquisitions to Common Music Group‘s historic IPO; from the worldwide development of the impartial sector to fierce business debates over streaming economics; from government shake-ups to the emergence of AI because the music biz’s subsequent nice disruptor – the journal revisits the tales that mattered most.
However MBW10 – supported by Refrain TM – is far more than a group of headlines.
That includes unique year-by-year perception and evaluation, the retrospective gives context that solely comes from having coated these developments as they unfolded.
It additionally contains complete annual world knowledge from IFPI, charting the outstanding monetary restoration of the recorded music business.
The previous decade has seen worldwide recorded music revenues greater than double, pushed by streaming’s dominance.
It’s additionally witnessed the start of recent energy gamers, the return of music as an engaging asset class, and elementary questions on how artists, labels, and platforms ought to share the spoils.
MBW has been there for all of it – breaking information, interrogating the numbers, and offering evaluation that business professionals depend on each day.
Whether or not you’ve adopted MBW from the start or found us extra lately, this retrospective gives an opportunity to revisit the tales that introduced us right here – and contemplate the place the following decade may take us.
Commemorative bodily copies of the journal at the moment are on their method to world business leaders in addition to MBW+ bodily journal subscribers (simply in time for the Holidays).
For everybody else, the e-book is obtainable to learn and obtain digitally HERE or beneath.
The ultimate web page of MBW10 explains one thing that all the MBW group completely believes in:
The music business makes for nice copy – due to all of you. Cheers for giving us one thing attention-grabbing to jot down about day by day.
Right here’s to the following decade.Music Enterprise Worldwide
