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Setlist: Review of the music business year 2021

By Andy Malt and Chris Cooke | Published on Monday 20 December 2021

CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review key events in music and the music business from the last year. For this edition of Setlist we’re doing things a bit differently. It’s our final episode of 2021, so we’re going to look back at the big five stories of the last twelve months in the music business. It’s been a while since we last did this, because last time we recorded a ‘review of the year’ edition it took so long we nearly missed Christmas. This time we’ve come up with a plan though, we only have five minutes to talk about each story. Can it be done? And what were the five big music industry stories of 2021 anyway? Find out here.

SECTION TIMES
01: Streaming economy debate (00:05:54)
02: Brexit (00:12:25)
03: NFTs (00:19:39)
04: Apple Tax (00:25:57)
05: Music rights boom (00:33:41)
(Timings may be slightly different due to adverts)

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FURTHER READING
• CMU reports on the streaming economy debate
• CMU reports on Brexit
• CMU reports on NFTs
• CMU reports on Epic Games v Apple