From Blackpink to Top Execs: Women in Music Who Have Made an Impact in Global Entertainment
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The world has changed tremendously since
Variety‘s last International Women’s Impact Report a year ago: The COVID-19 pandemic shut down business around the globe and accelerated the shift toward streamed entertainment. The music industry has felt the impact of the pandemic more than many particularly live entertainment but it has rose to meet those challenges, and the music artists and executives featured in
Variety‘s larger International Women’s Impact Report (see the full report here) are among those leading the charge. We at
Music Business Worldwide
February 24, 2021
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Warner Chappell Music saw its market share of domestic repertoire rise to more than a third (33.64%) in Germany last year.
That domestic market share – a calculation of local and international repertoire based on single song sales and streaming as calculated by GfK – was nearly triple the annual figure that the Warner Music Group company posted in 2015 (12.34%).
These results, says Chappell, meant it was comfortably the No.1 domestic repertoire publisher in Germany in 2020 – some 10% ahead of nearest competitor Sony/ATV (now Sony Music Publishing), which ended the year with an equivalent market share of 23.81% (see below).