This report aims to provide cut-through on the big issues that we think will dominate 2023. In it, we’ve isolated the innovative ideas from some of the most influential thinkers across the music industry – and then drawn out the key learnings for you to take forward as the year unfolds. In this report, four key perspectives on the coming year: […]
While NFTs stole the headlines in 2022, a raft of other exciting developments took place, and various music/tech startups took leaps and bounds as they strove to create new technological opportunities for creativity, commerce, or collaboration in the music space. In this report, we take stock and figure out what it means – and what happens […]
Welcome to our second annual Music Ally International Focus report, where we zoom out and dig into the last 12 months of Music Ally’s Country Profiles. This is an utterly essential guide for the internationalised music industry pro – packed with data, interviews, local strategies, and insight from the people who count in each country. We have split our focus between […]
Our spring 2022 quarterly report is for anyone who engages with music streaming platforms and wants to maximise their success on them: i.e. you, quite probably. In this report, we take a comprehensive look at the state of music streaming platforms around the world, and analyse their strategies, differences, successes, and challenges. We’ve broken the world’s streaming platforms into […]
This report was created by students of SMIX.LAB, a digital music business research centre at Popakademie Baden-Württemberg. Music Ally is their publishing partner for this original research, which uses Spotify data from a number of case studies to try to better understand the impact of playlisting on the “breakthrough moment” for some of 2021’s biggest newcomers. […]
The Trends Report is designed to set your synapses buzzing with ideas, and put you on the front foot in 2022. In it, we look back at what happened in 2021 – that most complex of years – and turn what we learned into a forward-thinking series of analyses, with advice, ideas and context, to help you navigate a better route through the year ahead. […]
In this report, we’ve rounded up 60 startups that we think are particularly worthy of your attention. This is not a “best new startups of 2021” list – instead, it’s a snapshot of our view of this ecosystem: these are early-stage tech companies (or ones new to the music industry) that we have encountered for […]
We’re trying something different with our Q2 report. From now on, it’s going to be our International Focus edition, gathering our country profiles from throughout the year into one report, for a snapshot of music industry trends and views from around the world. This inaugural edition is divided into regions. From the Americas we have profiles of Argentina, […]
Our main feature this quarter is an analysis of the UK’s music streaming economics inquiry, including its key talking points so far, and what might happen next. The report went to press before this morning’s story about more than 150 artists backing calls for ‘equitable remuneration’ to be extended from broadcasting to streaming, but you […]
It’s time for our end-of-year trends report. And no, it’s not just a giant, printable poster of a Covid-19 virus. Nobody wants that on their wall. We couldn’t ignore the novel coronavirus and its effects on the music industry, of course, but our choice of the 30 key trends of 2020 ranges widely beyond that […]
Our main feature focuses on TikTok’s eventful 2020 so far, from the deepening of its relationship with artists and the music industry to its tangles with the Trump administration, along with the rise of the short video apps category more generally. Our Second Look section analyses recent stories and data around Hipgnosis Songs Fund; Tencent […]
Our main feature explores the evolution of live music, as we look towards a time when concerts are able to resume safely. What have we learned from the livestreaming boom during the Covid-19 lockdown, and what are the prospects for ‘hybrid’ online/offline concerts in the coming months? We’ve also got a feature recapping two thought-provoking […]
