The MBW Overview is the place we purpose our microscope in the direction of a few of the music biz’s largest current goings-on. This time, we crunch the numbers on the foremost music corporations’ current Q2 outcomes. The MBW Overview is supported by Instrumental.
The report trade is headed for a gangbusters 12 months – and we’ve obtained the receipts to show it.
MBW has crunched the reported calendar Q2 financials of every of the three main music corporations for our evaluation beneath.
Wish to understand how good 2021 is on the lookout for Common Music Group, Sony Music Group, and Warner Music Group?
Our calculations have revealed:
- Mixed, the recorded music arms of the three main music corporations generated $4.63 billion within the three months to finish of June – up by a whopping 40.1% (or +$1.32 billion) on the identical interval of 2020;
- Whenever you add international publishing revenues to recorded music revenues at UMG, SMG, and WMG, issues get even rosier. On this foundation, the three majors generated $5.60 billion in calendar Q2 2021, up by $1.53 billion (or +37.6%) on the identical interval of final 12 months;
- That $5.60 billion turnover equates to the three majors cumulatively producing $61.5 million per day within the 12 months’s second quarter – or, in flip, $2.56 million each hour;
- Common Music Group noticed its quarterly international turnover (recorded music plus publishing) develop by a large $607 million year-on-year in Q2; Sony Music Group’s equal international determine (together with Japan) rose by $592 million; Warner Music Group was up $331 million;
- Within the first six months of 2020, the three main music corporations generated $10.91 billion – placing them firmly on the right track for a cumulative $20 billion 12 months.
Specializing in the half-year outcomes for the majors this 12 months (i.e. the six months to finish of June) reveals us that Common Music Group is now firmly in competition to get close to, or perhaps even surpass, a $10 billion-plus turnover in 2021.
UMG’s turnover throughout recorded music and publishing within the first six months of 2021, in response to MBW’s calculations, stood at $4.65 billion.
That was up by $864 million year-on-year.
Common was additionally comfortably the most important recorded music firm on this planet on the midyear level of 2021, producing $3.97 billion from its labels and artists.
That UMG recorded music half-year quantity was up $807 million year-on-year versus the primary six months of 2020.
Sony, nonetheless, ran the world’s largest music publishing firm in H1 2021, by a snug distance.
Sony’s international music publishing operation – led by Sony Music Publishing, but in addition together with the agency’s pubco in Japan – generated $838 million within the six months to finish of June 2021.
That was up by $181 million on the equal income from the midyear level in 2020.
Mixed, throughout recorded music and publishing, the three majors generated $10.91 billion within the first six months of 2021.
That was up by over $2.3 billion on what Common, Sony, and Warner collectively reported in revenues for the equal interval of 2020.
A fast notice on methodology: With the intention to receive USD outcomes for the three main music corporations, quarterly fiscal outcomes for 2 of the three – Sony Music Group (through Sony Group Corp) and Common Music Group (through Vivendi) – have been transformed from Japanese Yen and Euros, respectively, on the prevailing quarterly forex charges, as offered by every father or mother firm. Common Music Group’s recorded music ends in MBW’s evaluation consists of merchandise gross sales; these are reported individually to recorded music by Vivendi, however combining these two classes (merch + recorded music) brings UMG according to Sony and Warner’s recorded music reporting. The half-year outcomes above mirror calendar Q1 and Q2 outcomes mixed for every firm, with forex transformed at a quarterly price per every three-month interval.
A small caveat for the midyear numbers above: From Q2 2020 onwards, Sony Group Corp has offered a income quantity for recorded music that features extra gross revenues paid over by streaming platforms (together with a portion of these destined for its companion labels). This gross Sony determine is mirrored in all calculations on this article, and is the closest equal to how Common and Warner current their figures. Nonetheless, Sony’s extra gross income determine is not obtainable for Q1 2020, which means Sony’s related income quantity for H1 2020 within the above charts is barely decrease than the truth.Music Enterprise Worldwide
