IMI updates and news
Maharashtra cyber crime cell arrests Thop TV developer for piracy on Viacom18’s complaint
Bollywood stages a comeback after extended weak show at box office
Disney+Hotstar to get 100 original shows as it gains 7.9 mn new subscribers
Can PVR, Inox Leisure offer blockbuster returns ahead?
India Inc’s Tryst With Metaverse
The rise and rise of Metaverse
India is Gearing Up for a Post upi Digital Payments Revolution
Tiktoks Ad Revenue to Surpass Twitter and Snapchat Combined
Josh The Short Video App Born After Indias Tiktok Ban Gets 805 Million
Diminishing Language Barrier Relevant Engaging Etories Making Regional Content Popular On Ott
Smartphones Drive ott Streaming Explosion in India 5g to be Game Changer
Media and Entertainment Industry in South Sees 15 Growth cii Report
How Universal To Sony See India’s Online Music Market Growing
‘I BELIEVE THAT TODAY WE ARE IN A PLACE WHERE INDIAN MUSIC CAN CROSS OVER GLOBALLY.’
The Indian music streaming market deconstructed
Warner Chappell Inks Sub-publishing Deal With Estate Of Legendary Belgian Singer Jacques Brel
300 Entertainment Launches Content And Film Division, 300 Studios
Spotify says ‘majority’ of its streams are active listening
Music metaverse startup Ristband bags Epic Games ‘MegaGrant’
Create Music Group buys influencer marketing agency VRTCL
Apple posts record revenues and grows to 785m paid subscribers
Triller and Boomplay team up for African music playlists
Warner Strikes Deal To Create ‘first Music-themed World’ In The Sandbox Gaming Metaverse
Universal Expands Agreements With Twitch And Amazon Music
He helped establish Spotify in the US, before selling his startup to Twitter. Now Sachin Doshi wants to transform podcasting at Podimo.
ADA Worldwide Inks Global Deal With Grammy-nominated Producer Murda Beatz
Pimco, One Of The World’s Biggest Investment Firms, Turns Its Attention To Music Rights
Pro Agency Inks Global Neighboring Rights Deal With Secretly Distribution
Siriusxm Acquires Music For Business Service Cloud Cover Media
Reservoir Buys Publishing Catalog Of Grammy-winning Dj, Songwriter, And Prod
Merlin Inks Multi-year Deal With Music Licensing Platform Lickd
Primary Wave Spends $60m On Stakes In Paul Rodgers And America Catalogs
Warner acquires Africa-based music distributor Africori
Arjun Pulijal Named President Of Capitol Music Group
Germany Generated 165 Billion Music Streams In 2021… Almost A Fifth More Than In 2020
At Least $5 Billion Was Spent On Music Rights Acquisitions In 2021. Could 2022 Be Even Bigger?
Now John Legend Sells: BMG And KKR Buy Catalog From All Of Me Hitmaker
NFT Marketplace Opensea Valued At $13.3bn As It Raises $300m In Series C Funding
Exceleration Music Inks Strategic Partnership With Indie Label Sideonedummy Records
Primary Wave Acquires Stake In Catalog Of Singer-songwriter Matt Redman
Investors are spending hundreds of millions on records by Bruce Springsteen and the Red Hot Chili Peppers
Triller To Go Public In The Us Via Merger With Seachange
Believe Acquires 51% Stake In French Indie Label Jo&Co
Atlantic Records Inks Joint Venture Deal With Detroit’s Assemble Sound
Melodity – The Web3 Ecosystem for the Music industry to fully unleash creativity with play-to-earn, listen-to-earn, NFTs and Metaverse
David Bowie’s Estate Sells His Publishing Catalog to Warner Chappell
Symphonic Distribution Raises $37m, Having Generated $12m In Net Revenue In 2021
India’s smart personal audio reaches 14% of worldwide market share
Outdustry talks essential ingredients for success in India
BMG and KKR announce first joint acquisition: the ‘entire music interests’ of ZZ Top
India moves up on CISAC’s 2021 Global Collections ranking
Music bodies concerned about Europe’s Digital Services Act
Classical firm Kuke Music reports latest financial results
Tuned Global Strikes Deal To Power Relaunched African Music Streaming App Waw Muzik
Sound Royalties Launches Advances For Artists And Performers Seeking Tour And Production Support
BMG Buys Mötley Crüe Recordings Catalog For Around $90 Million
Believe acquires Think Music
Ricky Kej gets second Grammy nomination
Indian short-video app Chingari signs deal with label Saregama
Podcasts subscription service Podimo raises $78m funding
Spotify has $3.5bn earmarked for next phase of audio expansion
Sony Music is a ‘cornerstone investor’ in NetEase Cloud Music
India moves up the global music-rights collections rankings
Moodagent releases first Indian brand campaign
Spotify Launches Real-time Lyrics For All Free And Premium Users Globally
TikTok Strikes Multi-year Music Licensing Deal With And APRA AMCOS
Downtown Music Services Inks Publishing Deal With French Band Air
Ingrooves Music Group announces global deals with Himesh Reshammiya and Yo Yo Honey Singh, appoints Amit Sharma as India Country Manager
Warner’s Recorded Music Revenues Just Topped $1bn For The Fourth Straight Quarter
After Making Tens Of Millions On Roblox, Warner Places Another Gaming Investment Bet
Spotify Acquires Findaway To ‘revolutionize The Audiobook Space’
Hipgnosis Songs Fund Share Price Hits All-time High On London Stock Exchange
Priya Dewan Upped To Vp, International Marketing, Asia Pacific And Md, Southeast Asia And Korea At The Orchard
Indian Short Form Video monthly active users rise to 250 million
Believe Buys 25% Stake In French Indie Label Play Two For Around $14 Million
Create Music Group Acquires India-based Distribution And Rights Management Firm Nirvana Digital
Sony Music’s Quarterly Streaming Revenues Burst Above $1bn For The First Time
Is Universal Music Group Going To Post A $2bn Ebitda Profit This Year?
BMG Strikes Alliance With Germany’s Taubertal-festival In Latest Live Music Move
Sony Music Publishing Strikes Partnership With Punjabi/hindi Content Specialist White Hill Music
Ingrooves Expands Into Italy, Names Luca Stante As Country Manager For The Market
Exceleration Music Acquires Chicago-based Label Bloodshot Records
Kobalt Is Selling A Music Catalog For $1 Billion – And KKR Is In Prime Position To Buy It
Universal Music India Launches New Label Vyrl Punjabi In Partnership With Composer Jatinder Shah
Tiktok Names Six Certified Sound Partners Including Songtradr, Massivemusic, UnitedMasters And Epidemic Sound
Nepal-based Producer Sagun Launches Lo-fi Label Arden Records In Collaboration With Platoon
Opulous Teams Up With Lil Pump And Edm Star Kshmr To Let Fans Invest In Their Music
Warner Music Strikes Partnership With $90m-backed Influencer Text-messaging Platform Community
YouTube Music will launch free background listening starting in Canada
Spotify Rival Anghami Strikes Partnership With Mobile Game Pubg
Roblox Games Developer Supersocial Raises $5.2m From Investors Including Warner Music Group ‘to Build Iconic Metaverse Experiences’
Sony Music Launches ‘artist Assistance’ Program to Promote Wellness for Its Signed Talent
Universal’s New Partnership With $34m-backed Medrhythms Will See Its Music Used to Treat Neurologic Injury
Warner Music India Inks Exclusive Strategic Partnership With Entertainment Firm Jetsynthesys
Warner Music Group and Twitch Ink ‘first-of-its-kind’ Partnership
Welcome to the New Record Business: Warner Music Group Is Now Generating Over $270m From Tiktok, Peloton, Facebook and Other ‘alternative’ Platforms Annually
David Bowie’s Entire Catalog Is Coming to Warner Music From 2023
Believe Revenues Jump 30% In H1 2021 To Over $300 Million
Bobby Ju Named Managing Director Of Sony Music Korea
South Africa’s Gallo Music Investments Acquires 45% Stake In Distributor Content Connect Africa (CCA)
Aerosmith Inks Deal To Bring Entire Catalog To Universal Music Group
Slip·Stream launches a ‘DMCA-proof’ album for streamers
Spotify has removed some of its podcasts from rival platforms
Reservoir Generated $16.7m in Calendar Q2 – and Paid Out $6m in Songwriter Royalties and Publishing Costs
Roblox Q2 revenues grew by 127% year-on-year to $454.1m
Hipgnosis buys catalog from Fleetwood Mac’s Christine McVie
Warner Boss Steve Cooper Talks Tiktok and Peloton Revenues, the Rise of Virtual Artists, and the Value of Record Labels
Universal Music Group signs global deal with Indian superstar Badshah
Tencent Music Given 30 Days To End Exclusive Deals With Global Labels In China
Universal Music Group Inks Licensing Deal With Tiktok Rival Lomotif
Clubhouse comes out of beta a year after first launching
Travis Barker Signs Global Publishing Deal With Warner Chappell Music
WARNER MUSIC GROUP ACQUIRES ASSETS OF DOUG MORRIS’S 12TONE MUSIC
75% Of Tiktok’s Users Say They Discover New Artists On The Platform
France says streaming services like Netflix must invest set amount in local content
Spotify may branch out into the live music world
Bang Si-hyuk steps down as CEO of HYBE, formerly known as Big Hit Entertainment
Spotify expands its advertising network to more countries
UK live music industry sues British government
IMI LAUNCHES TOP 20 INTERNATIONAL SINGLES CHARTS INDIA
Virgin Music to provide global distribution for Primary Wave labels
IFPI and 17 representatives from Europe’s creative sectors raise concerns regarding the European Commission’s guidance on Article 17
Sony Music legacy artists set for streaming payouts as major removes unrecouped balances
SVF Music announces licencing deals with multiple Short Video Apps
Hipgnosis revenues up 66% as streaming surges during pandemic
Ackman’s Pershing Square In Talks To Buy 10% In Vivendi’s UMG For About $4 Bln
The German Music Industry Is Tackling Piracy Through Self-Regulation
YouTube says it paid the music industry over $4bn in the last 12 months
Why are music manufacturers focusing on custom vinyl records in 2021?
Twitch ‘disappointed’ with music publishing industry as it’s hit with 1,000 copyright infringement claims
Universal Music India and Capitol Records team up on Jason Derulo re-work of Tesher’s global hit Jalebi Baby
The Inflection Point For OTT Revenues In India
Marketing Music: Livestreams, Premieres and Listening Parties
TUNECORE AND BELIEVE PARTNER WITH YOUTUBE TO PROVIDE MUSIC FOR TIKTOK RIVAL SHORTS
Sony’s spent $1.4bn on music acquisitions in the last six months… and Rob Stringer’s not stopping there
Facebook’s new game plan for India
Tixxy sells concert tickets with targeted text messages
BTS break YouTube and Spotify records with ‘Butter’ single
Soundcloud launches weekly artist talk series on Clubhouse
Bruno Mars sells portion of his music catalog to Warner Chappell Music
Snapchat registers over 100% YoY growth for five consecutive quarters in India
Disney to Close 100 International TV Channels in Streaming Shift
Hi-Res audio: It’s all about a maturing market
UGC vs. Premium: Is the video valuation bubble big enough to burst?
From Universal’s 10% sell-off to Sony Music under investigation: It’s MBW’s weekly round-up
South Korean pop music industry suffers big losses amid pandemic
Streaming Revenue Will Reach $40 Billion This Year
UMG signs new Triller deal after public falling out
Tencent Music and NetEase Cloud Music sign deals with Sony Music Entertainment
Govt Advisers Warned New IT Rules Beyond Scope Of Law, But Were Overruled: Report
Apple and Amazon ignite hi-res music streaming battle
Brit Awards organisers hail growth in digital activity
Spotify rival Anghami expands into social audio space with new live radio feature
Universal Music set for public listing by late September
Spotify Singles update: over 630 tracks and 5bn streams
Italian record industry sues Vimeo
Discord adds ‘Stage Discovery’ feature to find live audio events
Tips Music announces music licensing deal with YouTube Shorts: Details here
How I used economic theory at Spotify to disrupt the music business
YouTube to launch $100 million creator fund for Shorts video feature
Why’s Believe’s going public? And what it’s going to spend $600m on?
Record label Believe follows Universal with €2bn listing plan
Twitter adds ‘Tip Jar’ donations feature including Bandcamp
Live Nation revenues fell by 79% year-on-year in Q1, but it says events are now ‘selling out faster than ever before’
Twitch mobile app was downloaded 22m globally in Q1 2021, up 62% year-on-year
IPRS announces an emergency relief fund of Rs 2.5 crores
Beggars group launches new music supervision business Colourbox music with Ben Turner and Simon Astall
PRS For Music introduces discounted rate for livestream licence following ‘healthy debate’
SoundCloud and Triller team up for emerging artists playlist
Deezer invests in livestream start-up Dreamstage
After Spotify’s (slight) price hike, Warner Music Group boss Steve Cooper expects music streaming prices will begin ‘closing the gap’ on video services
BTS label Big Hit (Hybe) generated $161m in revenues in Q1, up 29% year-on-year
Recording industry takes action against Vimeo for making available infringing music content
Warner Music’s physical sales up 19% in first three months of 2021
IFPI statement on the publication of the EU Priority Third Countries Report 2021
Battle of subscribers: Netflix slows down in race with Disney+ Hotstar
YouTube is now generating $2bn a month from ads – and grew faster than Netflix in Q1
Warner Music group buys stake in virtual concerts platform Wave
Jay-Z reportedly finalises Tidal sale to Jack Dorsey for $350m as platform boasts of paying ‘4x more per stream’ than rivals
Senior IAS Officer Tripurari Sharan Named New Bihar Chief Secretary
European Commission says Apple ‘distorted competition in the music streaming market’
Facebook Q1 revenues grew 48% year-on-year to $26.2bn
Spotify subscriptions grew just 2% to 158m in Q1, monthly active users topped 356m
Google earnings smash sales records as digital ad market booms
Snep boss thinks French music subscriptions could double
BMG speeds up royalty payments to songwriters as part of modernisation programme
Tencent could be hit with $1.5bn fine and forced to sell two music apps in China (Report)
Disney+Hotstar, MX Player, SonyLIV are top 3 OTT platforms in India
Goldman Sach: Universal is worth over $50bn and global music streaming revenues will rise $3bn this year
Spotify’s average subscriber is now paying less than $5 per month
Stylus counsel: Music industry execs on the 2021 vinyl boom
Times Music Inks Global Licensing Deal With Video Sharing App Triller
Songtradr acquires film, TV and gaming music data platform Tunefind
Warner Music Group Launches New Ad Sales & Creative Content Division
YouTube is a media juggernaut that could soon equal Netflix in revenue
Spotify to increase some subscription prices in the US, Europe and the UK
PRS For Music’s Andrea C Martin on the ‘tough year ahead’ as collections slump
Concord buys Downtown’s owned music copyright catalog for around $400m
Spotify is launching podcasts subscriptions… but it’s not going to make any money from them
Devraj Sanyal makes it to the coveted ‘Billboard International Power Players’ list
Facebook begins testing ads in Instagram Reels in India, other markets
Exclusive: In conversation with Mr. Blaise Fernandes- President & CEO, Indian Music Industry (IMI): Part 2
Sony Music applauds Apple’s new podcast subscription launch
Netflix is going ‘wobbly’ without fresh hits. The music industry is learning to live with the same thing
Songtradr acquires music licensing platform Pretzel
Deezer signs strategic partnership with Brazilian Netflix Rival Globoplay
Anderson Paak signs global publishing deal with Warner Chappell Music
Warner Chappell Music signs deal with OneNote Records
Saregama inks music deal with Sanjay Leela Bhansali
The music industry’s centre of gravity is shifting
Netflix predicts worst quarter for streaming growth in its history, stock falls 9%
Apple music just made a lot of claims about what it pays artists. Let’s take a closer look
Clubhouse confirms funding ahead of Facebook’s rival
Why Soundcloud has the music business right where it wants it
From Reservoir’s $788 valuation to Spotify and Warner’s canoodling: It’s MBW’s Weekly Round-up
Apple Music tells artists it pays double Spotify’s streaming royalties
Warner Music Group and Spotify strike podcast development deal
Looking back: How Spotify has changed the global music industry for good in just 15 years
Warner Music, Spotify Partner Up for Original Podcasts
BPI highlights growth of rap and hip-hop in the UK
Tencent Music gets new CEO as Cussion Pang takes new role
After Gangnam Style, Kolavari Di and Despacito, Haryanvi song 52 Gaj Ka Daman breaks through
Canada is considering a proposal that would allow internet providers to block piracy websites
TikTok users watch the app for an average of 89 minutes per day – and there’s 732m of them worldwide
Spotify is officially a hardware maker now, as car thing arrives in the US
Interview of the Week – Mandar Thakur, COO, Times Music
Clubhouse users can now pay money to creators, and the app gets 0% of it
BPI reveals how lockdown changed the UK’s listening habits
Patreon is now valued at $4bn after raising $155m in latest funding round
BMG and KKR are ready to spend $1bn on music copyrights – and that’s just for starters
Sony Music Publishing India signs global deal with Anand Audio
Universal and Republic team with Wassim ‘Sal’Slaiby to launch Universal Arabic Music
Saregama inks a global licensing deal with Triller
ARIA predicts vinyl will outsell CDs in Australia in 2021
India sees 200% rise in time spent on mobile lock screens: Glance report
“The time is ripe for the music industry to be unified” – Neeraj Kalyan, President, T-Series
In conversation with Neeraj Kalyan, then man behind T-Series’s successful re-entry into IPRS
Sony Music is buying Som Livre, Brazil’s biggest homegrown record label, for $255m
IFPI issues Global Music Report 2021
A Thousand TikToks, A Thousand Cuts.
WARNER AND TENCENT MUSIC TO LAUNCH A JOINT RECORD LABEL, AS THEY INK MULTI-YEAR LICENSING DEAL
BTS LABEL BIG HIT ENTERTAINMENT OFFICIALLY REBRANDS AS HYBE
Helping Content Creators Diversify Revenue on Facebook
Germany’s recorded music revenues grew 9% to $2bn last year, thanks to streaming’s lockdown boom
The music business in 2021: Joining the dots
BTS announced as the winners of 2020’s IFPI Global Recording Artist of the Year Award
Jack Dorsey’s Square is buying a majority stake in Jay-Z’s music-streaming platform Tidal for nearly $300 million
NeTease and Sony Music join $15M investment round in live-streaming platform maestro
US music fans spent more on vinyl than CD last year for the first time since 1986
High Court grants, for the first time, website blocking orders targeting cyberlocker and streamripping sites/app and considers that CJEU won’t follow AG Opinion in YouTube/Cyando
International music publishers find potential growth in India
Record industry wins landmark music streaming piracy case
Is retail radio-ready again in 2021?
Over 60,000 tracks are now uploaded to Spotiy every day. That’s nearly one per second
Spotify CEO Daniel Ek talks Bollywood, creators and battling radio with live features
SoundSys launched to drive improvements in performance rights revenue distribution
The soundtrack of history: How Black music has shaped American culture through time
‘Buy now pay later’ is big draw for India’s Gen Z
US video streaming giants face tough second act in India
BPI calls for government support to realise potential of billion dollar recorded music exports
Universal launches Virgin music label & artist services around the world rebranding Caroline and Caroline International
YouTube Music to improve discovery of user-created playlists
Big Hit and Universal ‘rewrite global music history’ with joint K-Pop label, expanded partnership
OTT firms look beyond ads, subscription for revenue
Lego Vidiyo hands-on: An AR-powered music video app with scannable minifigures
WARNER MUSIC GROUP BUYS MINORITY STAKE IN SAUDI ARABIA’S ROTANA MUSIC
India will be the 6th largest contributor to global ad spends in 2021: GroupM’s TYNY Report
Spotify unveils 2 Premium Mini Plans for listeners to have uninterrupted music experience
India’s OTT industry loses up to 30% revenue to piracy
Snapchat crosses 60 mn users milestone in India, clocks 150% growth in DAUs
Government of Canada Launches Consultation on How to Implement its CUSMA Commitment to Extend Canada’s General Copyright Term of Protection
Can Spotify Win the Indian Audio Streaming Market?
ByteDance In Talks To Sell Its Indian TikTok Assets: Report
CONFIRMED: UNIVERSAL MUSIC GROUP SET TO GO PUBLIC ON EURONEXT AMSTERDAM STOCK EXCHANGE THIS YEAR
ARA SET TO REVEAL MANIFESTO FOR EUROPE’S RETURN TO LIVE
Digitalisation is need of the hour, says NITI Aayog’s CEO Amitabh Kant
e-Commerce grows by 36% in last quarter in India: Report
Sony/ATV Returns to Sony Music Publishing, Unveils New Branding
OTT consumption grew 13% in 2020, led by sports: RedSeer Consulting-Business Journal
New data breaks down the dramatic increase in movies that went straight to streaming or digital-rental platforms in 2020
The Four New Global Capitals of Music
60% Of Pay-TV Users Want Subs To Include Streaming Content From Online Video Services
Govt taking steps to control piracy, counterfeiting
TIKTOK AND UNIVERSAL MUSIC GROUP SIGN GLOBAL LICENSING DEAL
DailyHunt’s Josh raises $100 million from Qatar Investment Authority and others – just two months after Google and Microsoft made it a unicorn
OTT Platforms That Are Going to Rule India in 2021
Start-up value at $180bn
To bloom, Music Industry needs a free market
SONY MUSIC REVENUES SOARED ABOVE $4.5BN IN 2020, AFTER HUGE FINAL QUARTER OF THE YEAR
T-Series And RED FM Launches Indie Hain Hum Season 2 With Tulsi Kumar
India powers Spotify’s growth as it closes in on 350 million monthly active users
15 Indian indie musicians to have on your playlist in 2021
Spotify nears 350 million users driven by India
Saregama brings its content catalogue to Josh users
Back to growth
Saregama India Q3 net profit jumps over three-fold to Rs 31.60 cr
India will see investments in multipurpose venues
Bilingual Collaborations Are Taking The Music World By Storm, These Are The Dream Collabs For 2021
Sony Music Buys AWAL, Kobalt Neighbouring Rights in $430M Deal
Public Performance Royalties from Non-Traditional Events in Wedding ceremonies in India.
INDIAN LABEL TIPS MUSIC INKS GLOBAL LICENSING DEAL WITH FACEBOOK
Vision 2025-The Show Must Go On
Royalties in Private Radio Industry of India
GIVING THE MUSIC INDUSTRY ITS DUE: ANTIQUATED REGULATIONS ARE DAMMING MUSIC REVENUES
Economic Value Of Music For Fm Radio In India
IMI expects 10% of radio players’ gross ad revenue as new base of royalty for music labels.
A New Dawn : New Horizons & New Hopes For The Recorded Music Industry
DISCORDANT POLICIES FOR RECORDED MUSIC INDUSTRY
State of the Recorded Music Industry 2020- National Address by Vikram Mehra, at All About Music 2020
Why Combating Music Piracy In India Is A Losing Battle
Indian Music Industry, heavily dependent on cashflows, hit hard by Coronavirus; Smaller Labels Face Existential Threat
Digitalisation is need of the hour, says NITI Aayog’s CEO Amitabh Kant
Crack down on piracy in entertainment biz
Vision 2022: Unlocking Fair Value to Stakeholders to Propel the Recorded Music Industry in India to the Top 10 Music Markets in the World
Towards fair compensation for music in private radio in India∗
Digital Music Study, 2019
Chairman’s Speech – Dialogue: The Indian Music Convention 2019
Fair value of music: Context of Radio
Indian Music Industry (“IMI”) and Deloitte report: Recorded Music Industry’s contribution to Indian economy at INR 8660cr
Record Labels’ global investment in A&R and marketing hit $5.8 Bn in 2017
Malware in Content Streaming Hardware
IMI WELCOMES LANDMARK BOMBAY HIGH COURT VERDICT
India’s recorded music industry registers 24.5% growth in 2018
Audio OTT Economy in India at inflection point, says IMI-Deloitte report
Global Digital Content Market (GDCM), 2018 – New Delhi
IMI Announces New Chairman of its Board of Directors
Digital Music Study 2018
IMI Conducts Workshop for the Eastern Chapter
IFPI, IMI & PPL Organised the 1st Ever Indian Music Industry Conclave in Chennai and Chandigarh
Indian Music Industry Figures Show 27% Growth Since 2016