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Party in the front, business in the back: Why Apple Music Sing is so savvy

Blog post by Tatiana Cirisano

13 Dec 2022

Streaming services are increasingly taking steps to diversify their offerings , and the latest example came last week from Apple Music. Just in time for holiday sing-a-longs, the service introduced a new,...

The cost of music streaming just went up — here is what must come next

Blog post by Tatiana Cirisano

3 Nov 2022

music streaming

music industry

apple music

It is finally happening. Apple Music raised its music streaming subscription price for the first time ever, following price rises from the likes of YouTube and Deezer, and Spotify indicates that it will...

Midnights: modern-day music marketing 101

Blog post by Ashleigh Millar

27 Oct 2022

taylor swift

community

online communities

Are we surprised that Taylor Swift has broken records (yet again) after dropping her new album, Midnights (and Midnights (3am Edition) )? In the first five days of release, Midnights earned more than an...

As Apple hits 100 million songs, the future of music discovery gets complicated

Blog post by Tatiana Cirisano

6 Oct 2022

music streaming

music discovery

Music creators

Apple Music celebrated the milestone of hitting 100 million songs this week — “more music than you can listen to in a lifetime, or several lifetimes”, global head of editorial, Rachel Newman, wrote...

Apple connects the dots

Blog post by Tatiana Cirisano

31 Aug 2022

music business

music streaming

apple music

We are entering the era of the end-to-end music company. Companies are increasingly striving to capture more parts of the value chain by building end-to-end ecosystems that serve creators at all levels...

How the iPod changed everything

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

10 May 2022

ipod

iphone

ipad

Apple just announced that it is finally ending production of the iPod . At 21 years of age, it outlived many of the dramatic changes it witnessed and triggered. In this age, dominated by streaming (and...

The past, present and future of the creator economy runs through Apple

Blog post by Kriss Thakrar

11 Feb 2022

Apple

creator economy

streaming

In previous posts, we have talked about the possibilities opening up for the next generation of creators . In particular, posts on fluid audio and social studios showed how music has the potential to become...

Music Subscriber Market Shares Q1 2020

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

23 Jun 2020

streaming

music subscribers

music subscriber market shares

WWDC would have been a perfect opportunity for Apple to announce another streaming milestone for Apple Music. It didn’t but the good news is that MIDiA already have a figure for Apple Music, as part...

Subscriptions put premium consumers as well as premium content behind paywalls

Blog post by Georgia Meyer

5 Jul 2018

Amazon Prime

apple music

Innovation

There are now 436 million paying subscribers across five of the largest distributors of digital music and video content globally (Spotify, Apple Music, Netflix, Amazon Prime, Tencent). This has very different...

Do Playlists Make the Power Law in Music Even More Extreme?

Blog post by Zach Fuller

31 May 2018

apple music

Music Charts

music streaming

Music has always been a superstar economy. Data going back to the 50s shows that, like many other areas of life and business, a disproportionate amount of the results come from a small number of factors....

Spotify, Apple Music and Ad-Supported Streaming

Blog post by Zach Fuller

11 May 2018

ad supported streaming

Alexa

amazon music

Cast your mind back to streaming yesteryear, back when the format was yet to establish itself as the industry’s dominant source of revenue. Spotify pushed heavily for a free tier, citing its impressive...

Free Report: Digital Music Is Streaming Forward

Blog post by Dara Jegede

16 Apr 2018

amazon prime music

apple music

bodak yellow

MIDiA is proud to partner with DiMA on its inaugural Streaming Forward Report. Digital distribution, andstreaming in particular, has been transforming music business in recent years. Although digital business...

‘Nice for What?’ and the Slow Death of the Album

Blog post by Zach Fuller

10 Apr 2018

apple music

beggars banquet

death of the album

I write this week’s blog conflicted between the music fan who grew up on the album and the MIDiA analyst looking at the numbers (an eternal struggle). Alongside the feature-length film, the LP was one...

Quick Take: Frustrate and Destroy – YouTube’s Frontloaded Strategy

Blog post by Zach Fuller

23 Mar 2018

apple music

deeper

lyor cohen

Listen to any music streaming debate and it will not be long before you the value gap discussion regarding YouTube is brought up. It is a point MIDiA has discussed at length through distinguishing Spotify...

Disney, Netflix and the Squeezed Middle: The Real Story Behind Net Neutrality

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

15 Dec 2017

Amazon

apple music

disney

Unless you have been hiding under a rock this last couple of weeks you’ll have heard at least something about the build up to the decision over turning net neutrality in the US, a decision that was confirmed...

Shazam Is Apple’s Echo Nest

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

11 Dec 2017

Apple

apple music

echo nest

Shazam finally found a buyer: Apple. Ever since its affiliate sales revenue model crumbled with the onset of streaming (there’s no business in an affiliate fee on a $0.01 stream), Shazam has been trying...

Pandora’s Loss Is Sirius XM’s Gain

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

9 Nov 2017

apple music

interactive radio

liberty acquisition

Pandora is in trouble, as explained by the consistently excellent Tim Ingham at Music Business Worldwide , after losing a billion dollars over the last four years and monthly active users (MAU) fell to...

Announcing MIDiA’s Streaming Services Market Shares Report

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

3 Nov 2017

7Digital

Amazon

amazon music unlimited

As the streaming music market matures, the bar is continually raised for the quality of data required, both in terms of granularity and accuracy. At MIDiA we have worked hard to earn a reputation for high-quality,...

Bodak Yellow: The Moment Streaming and Social Overtook Radio in Music Discovery

Blog post by Zach Fuller

6 Oct 2017

21 savage

apple music

bodak yellow

Renowned for its natural diversity (at certain points of the year you can hike in the desert, ski and surf on the same day), there was one thing that unified the state of California on my recent visit...

Spotify, Netflix And Instagram Make Gains In Q2 2017

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

19 Sep 2017

Amazon

apple music

candy crush saga

Since Q4 2016 MIDiA Research has been fielding a quarterly tracker survey across the US, UK, Canada and Australia to build a proprietary dataset that provides a unique insight into how digital consumer...

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