Tag: financials

As trials of Covid-safe concerts continue around the world, there is light at the end of this pandemic tunnel for the live music industry. Live Nation was certainly focusing on the positive in its latest financials report,...

Warner Music Group published its latest financial results yesterday, for the first quarter of 2021 – the company's fiscal Q2. It saw revenues grow by 17% year-on-year to $1.25bn, including growth of 17% for its recorded...

Here’s more evidence that the biggest ad-supported tech companies are over their Covid-19 bumpiness from 2020. Facebook published its Q1 2021 financial results last night, revealing that its revenues grew by 48% year-on-year...

In a week of big-tech financial results, Apple’s stand out as particularly spectacular. The company generated revenues of $89.58bn in the first quarter (its fiscal Q2) of 2021: a startling year-on-year rise of 53.6%....

Spotify has published its financial results for the first quarter of 2021, revealing that by the end of March it had 356 million monthly active users, including 158 million premium subscribers. The company says it added...

Crowdfunding firm OnlyFans is filing its latest financial results today, but the Financial Times got an early look at them – a mark of the company’s growing clout in the UK. According to the FT, OnlyFans’...

Spotify’s management team talked about a lot of things in the company’s ‘Stream On’ event earlier this week, but one announcement was saved for later. Yesterday the streaming services announced plans...

K-Pop giant Big Hit Entertainment had an excellent 2020 despite the Covid-19 pandemic. Its financial results, published yesterday, revealed that the company behind BTS’s revenues grew by 36% last year to KRW 796.3bn...

Snap, Inc published its latest financials yesterday, revealing that its Snapchat app now has 265 million daily active users. That’s up 22% year-on-year – 47 million more DAUs than at the end of 2019. “On...

Here’s another one for the list of music companies thriving during the Covid-19 pandemic. Sony Music reported overall music revenues of ¥187.11bn ($1.79bn) in the final quarter of 2020 – its fiscal Q3. That’s...

We reported yesterday on Spotify’s latest financial results, including decent growth in users, subscribers and revenues. Yet by the end of the day, the company was worth $5.37bn less than the day before, as its share...

Facebook and Apple both announced their latest quarterly financial results yesterday, with strong growth in revenues despite the Covid-19 pandemic. Facebook’s Q4 revenues were up by 33% year-on-year to $28.07bn, helping...