JKBX, pronounced like ‘jukebox’, could be a game changer for the music investment markets. Rather than offering low-yield music catalogues from second-tier artists, JKBX sells profit participation rights to royalty streams from valuable catalogues, such as that housing the songs of OneRepublic frontman Ryan Tedder. By doing this, JKBX links the billion-dollar music rights market…

The second wave of music investment marketplaces started in Europe, particularly in Sweden, from 2021 onwards (for the first start-up wave see part 2 of the series). With Tangy Market, Master Exchange and Anotherblock three new players entered the Swedish market between 2021 and 2023. The wave of new companies continued with Bolero (2021) in…

Private equity projects, in which music catalogues are bought up for millions, could just be a transitional phase towards a new development in which music becomes a speculative commodity. The buzzword is securitisation. This means that financial giants are developing new financial products based on music rights and the income streams they generate. In business…

Shamrock Capital Advisors, a private equity company based in Los Angeles, made headlines with the acquisition of Taylor Swift’s first six albums from Scooter Braun’s Ithaca Holdings in October 2020. The deal, worth a total of US $405 million, resulted in a significant profit for Scooter Braun. However, Taylor Swift opposed the sale and planned…

Two years ago, I wrote a blog series called ‘Music as an Investment’, in which I analysed the boom in music rights sales. In it, I highlighted the role of the newly emerging music IPR companies such as BMG Rights Management, Primary Wave, Round Hill Music, Hipgnosis and Reservoir Media Management. They have invested hundreds…

Volume 14, No 1, April 2025 Editorial by Peter Tschmuck, pp. 1-2 Carmen Berné, Manuel Cuadrado-García and Ana Múgica: Exploring the Relevance of Values Generated by Music Organisations in Consumers, pp. 3-11 Pavel Zahrádka, Rostislav Sliwka, Michal Tomčík and Václav Hodonický: Frontline Trenches or, Rather, Open Borders? The Multi-Territorial Licensing and Digital Export of Czech…

Volume 13, No 2, October 2024 Editorial by Peter Tschmuck, pp. 33-34 Fabian Cannizzo, Catherine Strong, Shelley Brunt: Australian Music Business Managers’ Views of Working with and Supporting Birth Parents After Career Breaks, pp. 35-48 Tim Kelly: Down, and Under Pressure: The Decline of Local and Non-Anglo Best-Selling Recording Artists in Australia 2000–2023, pp. 49-62…

Although the disputes between some superstars and Spotify have ended in favour of the Swedish streaming service, Swift & Yorke have nevertheless revealed weaknesses in the business model of music streaming from the point of view of the artists. The main beneficiaries of the streaming economy are the music majors, and little falls to the…

Twenty years ago, the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry’s (IFPI) Online Music Report first mentioned music streaming as a potentially relevant source of revenue for the phonographic industry, which at the time was still dominated by recorded music sales. However, it was not until 2010 that music streaming became commercially relevant, and in the…

. Volume 12, no 2, October 2023 Editorial by Peter Tschmuck, p. 45 Dan G. Hodges Jr.: Nashville: The Creative Business Cluster and its Life Cycle, pp. 47-56 Zarja Peters & Phillip Cartwright: A Perspective on NFTs in the Arts-and-Music Industry, pp. 57-77 Book review by Benjamin Morgan: Computing Taste: Algorithms and the Makers of…

The Young Scholars’ Workshop, as part of the 13th International Music Business Research Days (Vienna, Austria), invites once again young researchers to submit paper abstracts of all disciplines exploring questions that help understand economic and managerial problems as well as processes of the music business sector and in the field of music management. There are…

Volume 10, no 2, October 2021 Editorial by Peter Tschmuck, p. 51 Muhammad Murtaza Ali, Jenny Karlsson & Per Skålén: How Has Digitalisation Influenced Value in the Music Market?, pp. 53-63 Martina Kalser-Gruber: The Power of Reputation: A Case Study on Artistic Directors of Austria’s Music Festivals, pp. 65-77 Subash Giri: Digital Technologies and…

Monograma, the scientific journal of the Ibero-American Foundation for the Cultural and Creative Industries, is preparing a special issue on Management Models in the Music Industries. The editors invite submissions on this area from a variety of perspectives, addressing all types of music (including traditional music, urban popular music, classical music, videogame music, motion picture…

The mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna offers six 4-year fully-funded PhD positions (30h/ per week) within the newly established Structured Doctoral Programme “Music Matters. Materiality, Knowings and Practices in Performing Arts”. The Structured Doctoral Programme starts on October 1st 2020 and aims to develop a “contemporary diagnosis of musical matters” and…

In the 10th anniversary Vienna Music Business Research Days on the “Future of the Music Business” at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (Anton-von-Webern-Platz 1, 1030 Vienna/Austria) music business researchers and music business professionals look into the recent past of the music industry to learn more about its future. Find the program here.…

In the 10th anniversary Vienna Music Business Research Days on the “Future of the Music Business” at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (Anton-von-Webern-Platz 1, 1030 Vienna/Austria) music business researchers and music business professionals look into the recent past of the music industry to learn more about its future. Find the program here.…

“Music Life Is Live” is the main topic of the 9th Vienna Music Business Research Days from Sep. 12-14, 2018. In presentations and discussions music business representatives and music business researchers focus this time on the political economy of music festivals and the economics of the international concert and touring business. Find the program here.…

Originally posted on Music Industry Blog: YouTube is the most widely used streaming music app globally but it is also the most controversial one, locked in a perpetual struggle with music rights holders, with neither side quite trusting the intent of the other. 2018 has already seen YouTube’s renewed focus on subscriptions as well as…

Originally posted on Music Industry Blog: It was a day of two halves for YouTube. On one side a big press release went out championing a host of impressive new stats – including hitting 1.9 billion logged in users, following an official launch of YouTube Musicthe day before. Meanwhile, on the other side, the European…

The first article of this issue of the International Journal of Music Business Research (IJMBR), “Exploring bounty and spread: key changes in the Danish music streaming economy” by Rasmus Rex Pedersen examines the structural effects of the transition to the access-based business model of music streaming, at a time when the global music streaming market…