Blog: Music market shares

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State of the independent music economy: Fragmentation AND consolidation

Mark Mulligan

31 Oct 2024

market shares

label market shares

Independent labels

MIDiA is excited to announce our latest report “ State of the independent music economy: Fragmentation AND consolidation”. It represents the most extensive piece of research we have ever done. Through...

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Recorded music market shares 2021 – Red letter year

Mark Mulligan

18 Mar 2022

Record music market

global music revenues

label trade revenues 2021

We suggested back in 2020, that 2021 was going to be a strong year for the recorded music market. As it turns out, 2021 was the fastest growing year in living memory, with growth across most formats, contrasting...

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Music Subscriber Market Shares H1 2019

Mark Mulligan

5 Dec 2019

Amazon Music

Deezer

Google

The global streaming market continues to grow at pace. At the end of June 2019 there were 304.9 million music subscribers globally. That was up 34 million on the end of 2018, while the June 2018 to June...

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Artists Direct and Streaming the Big Winners in 2018

Mark Mulligan

18 Dec 2018

2018 music revenues

2019 Recorded music revenue

Artists direct

With less than two weeks of 2018 left, the die is largely cast for the year, but we’ll have to wait at least a couple more months for the major labels to announce their results (though WMG still hasn’t...

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