MusicTech Rewinder - Issue #86

Dear reader,

I keep this one short.

Enjoy reading and have a fantastic weekend.

Cheers,

Matt

I share a mini-business-pan for revitalizing the music business, offering specific details and calculating the (huge) financial payback

The following MBW op/ed comes from Bruno Guez, CEO of Digital rights administration company Revelator…

We suggested back in 2020, that 2021 was going to be a strong year for the recorded music market. As it turns out, 2021 was the fastest growing year in living memory, with growth across most formats, contrasting…

Should entertainment fans be compensated for their fandom? Play-to-earn (P2E), a newly popular school of thought in the gaming space, says yes. People usually play video games for pure enjoyment, but in…

Spotify and FC Barcelona announced a branding deal worth circa $310 million last week, which will see the Spotify logo branded on football jerseys, memorabilia and even on Camp Nou (FC Barcelona) stadium. This follows their investment and hosting of Joe Rogan's controversial podcast that platforms COVID-19 misinformation and extreme views, of around $300m that…

A Prediction. It's not that approximately 40 minutes of sequenced music is an ancient, immutable form. The “long-playing” album as we know it dates only to June 20, 1948 (some accounts say June 21), when it was launched by Columbia Records at a press event in the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York.

MBW crunches the IFPI's latest numbers – and discovers some head-turning facts and figures…

Björn Ulvaeus, Max Martin, and Niclas Molinder founded Session to fix music's missing data problem.

So you bought an NFT. You now own what is effectively an immutable electronic deed meant to record ownership of an asset, often a digital artwork. You

Spotify has published two new job listings that suggest that the company plans on entering the NFT game in the near future.

Streaming Services is a new blog on the music Industry. The one that this column is named after, defines most people’s relationship with recorded music in the world today. I speak, naturally, of the Streaming Services.