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A couple of weeks ago, electronic music artist Karra posted a video on YouTube about why she took her album down from streaming (one that she spent $100,000 making) and is now going to focus her efforts on YouTube (“an incredible platform for [her] artistry”) as well as selli...
It’s that time of year again, MIDiA’s independent label and distributor survey is now live and waiting for your contributions!
href="https://musicindustryblog.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/cover_image-1756377072.p...This post builds on our January 2025 post ‘The unflattening of music’ which itself built on two previous pieces (you can find links to both in that post).
Industries arrive at pivot points when an accumulation of fissures coalesce into one big crack...
We are pleased to announce the release of MIDiA’s annual music forecasts report. This is always a labour of love and takes a bit longer than some other entities’ forecasts as our approach is more Etsy than Amazon, with every single line of data (and there are thousands of them) being hand crafted, individually stress tested and cross checked.
It might not be a very...
In a brutally simplified view of the past, the recorded music industry had two lanes: retail and radio. Piracy killed retail. Streaming killed piracy, then went on to, if not kill, then seriously maim radio. The two lanes converged into one – reverse bifurcation.
At first, it was all upside: the consumers that retail had lost began spending on subscriptions, and au...
