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Research from the Music Intel team and guest writers.
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Music Data Intelligence
Market size and the money at stake.
The Streaming Inflection: How Streaming Turned Music into a Data Industry
How streaming moved the music business from counting sales to counting plays.
The Fragmented Music Data Problem: The Music Industry Built a Global Distribution System Before It Built a Global Identity System
Why music has more data than ever, yet the complete picture around a work or recording is still so hard to establish.
You Don’t Know What You’re Missing: The Practical Limits of Royalty Investigation
How can a royalty investigator, however experienced, know they’ve checked everything they reasonably could?
Investigating the Information: What Royalty Investigation Can Learn From Mature Investigative Markets
How legal disclosure and digital forensics learned to cope with too much data, and what royalty investigators can take from them.
The Economics of Knowing: How Royalty Data Can Help Value a Catalogue
How the data that answers ‘have I been paid correctly?’ can also help answer ‘what is this catalogue worth?’