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Why TikTok is primed to become the next-generation music company

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Blog post by Tatiana Cirisano

10 Mar 2022

By now, TikTok’s impact on popular music is well-established. The platform routinely catapults songs to hit status, and it has become a regular part of digital marketing campaigns. But behind the scenes,...

Kanye’s Stem Player release is a real-time experiment in superfan targeting

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Blog post by Tatiana Cirisano

23 Feb 2022

monetising fandom

Music Streaming

Never one to follow tradition, Kanye West has announced that his next album, Donda 2 , will not be available on streaming services. Instead, he will release it exclusively on the Stem Player (a handheld...

Artists survey 2022 - MIDiA asks music creators: how will you grow your audiences, earnings and career?

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Blog post by Keith Jopling

8 Feb 2022

Music Streaming

Content Creators

As the music industry continues to debate the many pros and cons of ‘the streaming era’ (while enjoying the unprecedented industry growth that it has brought), the spotlight can sometimes move away...

The internationalisation of content: What it means when local goes global

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Blog post by Hanna Kahlert

8 Dec 2021

internationalisation

Digital-first life has broken down cultural borders, allowing content and fans from all over the world to spread far and wide on both a niche and mainstream level. It is now possible for small independent...

A red-hot cultural movement (Taylor’s Version)

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Blog post by Ashleigh Millar

23 Nov 2021

Here at MIDiA Research, we like to take a deep dive into fandom culture and the effect it has on industry progress and strategy. As of late, we have focused on the success behind tribal fandom (a skill...

Is live-stream composition the new formula for a hit album?

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Blog post by Ashleigh Millar

1 Oct 2021

We are no stranger to TikTok and its impact on the music industry, which is changing the structure of the business one viral video at a time. Artists and composers are flocking to the innovative social...

Why music underpins the culture of our ‘new normal’

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Blog post by Hanna Kahlert

22 Jul 2021

Media and Marketing

Audience Insight

The recent UK DCMS committee findings on streaming – namely, that artists should receive a greater share of streaming revenues – is merely one facet of the growing pains of a music industry reshaped...

Redefining global sounds through local cultures – the role of homegrown services in emerging markets

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Blog post by Srishti Das

6 Jul 2021

emerging markets

Music Streaming

In developed music markets, streaming was an outcome of the recorded music industry. Creators and labels released music, and streaming services created a simpler experience for listeners in already mature...

Spotify pushes prices up, but do not expect dramatic effects

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Blog post by Mark Mulligan

27 Apr 2021

spotify pricing

streaming pricing

Spotify finally announced a significant price increase, raising prices in the UK and some of Europe, with the US set to follow suit. The increases affect Family, Duo and Student plans. The fact that streaming...

T-Series to IPRS: Signs of a maturing market?

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Blog post by Srishti Das

9 Apr 2021

Music Streaming

music publishing

The Indian Performance Rights Society (IPRS) finally controls the majority of publishing market share in India, after the mammoth music label and film production company T-Series registered itself as a...

When women don’t make music: The sunset of Indian Folk

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Blog post by Hanna Kahlert

29 Mar 2021

indian folk music

MIDiA recently released a study on the experiences of women in the music industry ( free to download here ), discussing both the broad-level challenges they face – but also pointing to the positives,...

Women making music: The COVID impact

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Blog post by Hanna Kahlert

8 Mar 2021

international womens day

The last 12 months have been marked mostly by the coronavirus pandemic, which has pushed much of life to the digital world. 70% of independent artists overall spent much of the time over lockdowns creating...

Live streaming and the role of music artist empowerment in the digital era

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Blog post by Hanna Kahlert

19 Oct 2020

Music Streaming

As the coronavirus lockdowns have forced venues to close and people indoors, artists have been unevenly impacted across the music industry. While many bigger studios were forced to cease operations, and...

MIDiA's Recovery Economics principles for competing effectively post lockdown

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Blog post by Dara Jegede

11 Jun 2020

covid-19 impact

If you missed our webinar on how media and entertainment will evolve post lockdown and how companies should adapt, the recording is available below. MIDiA analysts present in this webinar how the entertainment...

Recovery Economics | Bounce Forward not Back

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Blog post by Mark Mulligan

28 May 2020

COVID-19 social distancing measures caused unprecedented dislocation to the entertainment economy. With a recession now a question of ‘how bad’ rather than ‘if’, entertainment companies have to...

Spotify Illustrates the Difference Between Flat Engagement and Real Sentiment

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Blog post by Hanna Kahlert

14 Jan 2020

consumer engagement

engagement metrics

Q3 2019 was a quarter of mixed fortunes for Spotify, with its subscriber base displaying consistent growth, podcasts making a solid early showing, emerging markets demonstrating promise but ad revenue...

Quick Take: If We Are Moving from an Attention Economy to a Sentiment Economy, Is Music Still Undervalued?

Blog post by Zach Fuller

19 Dec 2019

Music Streaming

post-peak attention

Applying economics to music often invites groans from music fans, but here goes…. The recorded music market is currently worth $18.8 billion dollars a year, and thanks to streaming that number is growing....

Post-Peak Attention and the Case for Micropayments

Blog post by Zach Fuller

9 Dec 2019

Success in new business paradigms involves wasting what is abundant to capture what is scarce. The Industrial Revolution did this by taking advantage of technologies that used the finite resource of human...

Disney+ Recovers From Initial Blunder to Surpass 10 Million Sign Ups on Debut!

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Blog post by Alistair Taylor

14 Nov 2019

21st Century Fox

all-encompassing offering

AppleTV+. Market saturation

Disney claims unexpected traffic on its newly-launched service was at fault for the buffering and technical issues of Disney+’s launch Tuesday . The issues highlight just how difficult it is transitioning...

Seven Developments in Recorded Music in the 2010s (and the Songs that Defined them)

Blog post by Zach Fuller

6 Nov 2019

cultural insight

Decade retrospectives are almost doomed to fail. Assess the 60s in 1969 and you would have likely overweighed the influence of Grand Funk Railroad compared to The Velvet Underground. When it comes to the...

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