Music Business Worldwide is regarded as one of the top information services for the global music industry even though it isn't a blog in the traditional sense. The website, which Tim Ingham, a journalist and analyst for the music industry, launched in 2015 in London, examines important issues and subjects in the sector. It includes the most relevant news, expert interviews, intelligent critical analysis, and two podcasts - the MBW Podcast and Talking Trends.

The Talking Trends podcast features Ingham delving into the latest recentstories, whereas the MBW podcast focuses on exclusive interviews with notable players in the music industry. Also, the website targets music industry professionals by offering the most recent job openings at the biggest music labels globally.

In addition to what we just discussed, the website has a reputation for releasing industry reports. These estimations include those made by the three main record labels, Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment, and Warner Music Group, regarding the revenue earned through streaming. The newspaper has additionally spoken out against the existence and support of fictitious, pseudonymous musicians on streaming services, particularly Spotify.

The website of Music Business International currently receives more than 500.000 unique visitors each month. It received over 7 million page views in 2019 and was ranked 22,845 on Alexa Internet's ranking of the top global websites in 2020.

First and foremost, it is important to realise that the music industry is actually a number of distinct industries that are all tightly tied to one another while also being founded on various logics and structures. This realisation is essential to understanding the dynamics of the music industry. The production and exploitation of intellectual properties based on music form the foundation of the whole music industry. Songs, lyrics, and arrangements are produced by composers and songwriters for live performance on stages, recording and distribution to customers, or licencing for other uses, such as sheet music or background music for other media (advertising, television, etc.).

This fundamental structure has resulted in the development of three main music industries: recorded music, which focuses on the production and distribution of music to consumers; music licencing, which primarily licences musical compositions and arrangements to businesses; and live music, which plans and markets live performances like concerts, tours, etc. Other businesses, such as producers of musical instruments, software, staging equipment, items related to music, etc., are occasionally acknowledged as belonging to the music industrial family. Even so, these are not often regarded as being essential to the heart of the industry, despite the fact that they are significant industry sectors.

Their principal duty was to make sure that licence fees were received whenever a song was used, regardless of the circumstance, and that these revenues were then equitably divided amongst the composers and lyricists.