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.
Quite a bit has modified.
Immediately, MBW celebrates a milestone: ten years overlaying one of the vital 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 progress of the unbiased sector to fierce business debates over streaming economics; from govt 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 presents context that solely comes from having lined these developments as they unfolded.
It additionally contains complete annual international information from IFPI, charting the exceptional 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 delivery 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 just lately, this retrospective presents an opportunity to revisit the tales that introduced us right here – and think about the place the subsequent decade would possibly take us.
Commemorative bodily copies of the journal are actually on their option to international 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 the complete MBW workforce completely believes in:
The music business makes for excellent copy – due to all of you. Cheers for giving us one thing fascinating to jot down about on daily basis.
Right here’s to the subsequent decade.Music Enterprise Worldwide
