{"id":2441007,"date":"2019-02-25T08:48:15","date_gmt":"2019-02-25T15:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=798749"},"modified":"2019-02-25T08:48:15","modified_gmt":"2019-02-25T15:48:15","slug":"musics-big-three-labels-make-19-million-a-day-from-streaming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/musics-big-three-labels-make-19-million-a-day-from-streaming\/","title":{"rendered":"Music\u2019s Big Three Labels Make $19 Million a Day From Streaming"},"content":{"rendered":"
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There\u2019s a fresh flow of cash in the record business these days. For an idea of how and why, look no further than the amounts that Sony, Universal and Warner pulled in from streaming services alone in 2018: a combined $6.93 billion in wholesale revenue, as reported in recent investor filings.<\/p>\n

That sum \u2014 which is $1.6 billion more than the $5.3 billion that the Big Three made from streaming in 2017, the first year of significant music-industry resurgence in two decades \u2014 amounts to about $19 million a day, or $800,000 per hour. Investor filings from the three companies\u2019 parent organizations (Vivendi, Sony Corp and Warner Music Group) along with Music Business Worldwide analyses<\/a> show that more than half of the trio\u2019s combined across-all-formats revenue of $13.14 billion came from streaming last year. In 2016 and 2017, the three record companies got about 35 percent and 40 percent of their revenue from streaming, respectively.<\/p>\n

As the influence of streaming platforms like Spotify and Apple Music continues to grow, the domination of physical music sales has been erased in tandem. All three major record companies saw multimillion-dollar declines in sales of physical formats like CDs and cassettes in 2018 \u2014\u00a0 with Sony, which has a suite of artists like Adele who outperform in physical sales, losing as much as a quarter-billion dollars in that category. Vinyl sales continued to be an outlier in the streaming-is-quashing-physical-records narrative, but their numbers were too small to offset the broader physical losses.<\/p>\n

In terms of total earnings, the clear leader of the three majors was Universal, which, thanks to its roster of artists like Ariana Grande, Drake and Lady Gaga holding the top of the charts hostage, saw its total music revenue swell from $2.2 billion in 2017 to a record $3 billion in 2018. (That\u2019s an extra $2.4 million per day coming into the company, MBW points out<\/a>.) Universal\u2019s new set of part-owners<\/a> will reap the benefits \u2014 that is, after they recoup the billions they\u2019ll have to shell out for control of the highly valued company in the first place.<\/p>\n

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There\u2019s a fresh flow of cash in the record business these days. For an idea of how and why, look no further than the amounts that Sony, Universal and Warner pulled in from streaming services alone in 2018: a combined $6.93 billion in wholesale revenue, as reported in recent investor filings. That sum \u2014 which […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2441007","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-14 14:07:34","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley's Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2441007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2441007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2441007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2441007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2441007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2441007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}