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Stability from chaos: How today’s artists find sustainable success in a turbulent music industry

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Keith Jopling

10 Jun 2024

Audience Insight

How do we take the pulse of success for music artists in 2024? In 'Sustainability from chaos:How today’s artists find sustainable success in a turbulent music industry' , we explore this question from the artist’s point of view and from the perspective of artist services companies.

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Gen AI music platforms are niche among consumers — is being too easy the problem?

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Tatiana Cirisano

6 Jun 2024

artificial intelligence

We all know how hype cycles work: a new technological advancement arrives, and industries rush to apply it to anything and everything. In these situations, it is useful to ask: What problem or need is this technology actually addressing? Usually, the answer is where the real opportunity lies (or, depending on where you sit, the real disruption).

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Billie Eilish delivered a superfan masterclass

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Kriss Thakrar

4 Jun 2024

While the industry standard for new releases has long been about scale and velocity, Billie Eilish, her brother Finneas, and Darkroom/Interscope, the labels behind their latest album Hit Me Hard and Soft , have delivered a masterclass in executing a superfan-focused release strategy.

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MIDiA Research 2024-2031 global music forecasts | Rise of the Global South

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Mark Mulligan

23 May 2024

music forecasts

streaming forecasts

midia forecasts

It appears to be the time of year for music forecasts. Today, MIDiA is proud to announce the release of our global music forecasts report, which marks the tenth year of us building these! The full 75+ page report and 40+ page datasheet for 45+ countries and regions, is available to MIDiA clients and for purchase here .

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In generative AI and music, will nice guys finish last?

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Tatiana Cirisano

22 May 2024

artificial intelligence

Generative AI music company Suno has raised $125 million, one of the biggest music-tech funding rounds in history . Founders say they want to ring in “a future where anyone can make music”, but questions remain over whether Suno and its rival, Udio, have trained their models on copyrighted music without licensing deals.

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Apple is not the only one crushing the old music-making paradigm

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Kriss Thakrar

15 May 2024

music production

Apple is crushing it – literally. The new iPad Pro ad received widespread backlash for its controversial crushing of musical instruments to demonstrate what is ‘packed into’ Logic Pro on the iPad.

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Songwriters, we want to hear from you – take our survey!

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Fernanda Balzaretti

13 May 2024

Music publishing

Songwriters are the backbone of the music industry; however, they are rarely in the spotlight. As with the rest of the industry, songwriters have seen their workflows and income sources turned upside down in the streaming and social media eras.

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Kendrick vs. Drake is a rare ‘mainstream’ moment — and streaming is on the sidelines

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Tatiana Cirisano

9 May 2024

Bifurcation theory

Over the last week, it has been hard to go anywhere, or speak to anyone, without some mention of the epic diss track battle between Drake and Kendrick Lamar. When is the last time we could say that about a pop culture moment? The domination of Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour is arguably the only bit of music news in the last year that managed to cut across every niche and break into “mainstream” conversation.

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Electronic music, fandom, and the rise of the Global South

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Mark Mulligan

9 May 2024

Electronic music market

dance music market size

I recently presented the tenth edition of the IMS Business Report at the Ibiza-based conference. In MIDiA’s second year creating the report, the findings reveal a global electronic music industry that not only has positive revenue trends but is also experiencing a global cultural resurgence.

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What TikTok and Spotify have in common

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Tatiana Cirisano

2 May 2024

In all likelihood, it has been years since anyone working in music went a week without talking about TikTok. In fact, the same probably goes for anyone with an internet connection. The platform’s clash — and now, reunion — with Universal Music Group; potential to be banned in the U.

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We need ‘real’ artists for the return to reality

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Kriss Thakrar

1 May 2024

The big theme of MIDiA’s 2024 predictions is that ‘ the algorithm is not listening ’. A third of the way into the year, we are seeing more and more evidence that this is the case. The past few years have seen social media feeds become hyper-personalised to the point where algorithms now know us too intimately.

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Taylor Swift, The Black Dog, and the fan frenzy flywheel

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Kriss Thakrar

25 Apr 2024

A new Taylor Swift album is almost guaranteed to start a fan frenzy - the question is, what form will it take? Breaking Spotify records is a given, but digital consumption is not enough to satiate super fandom.

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Bifurcation theory | How today’s music business will become two

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Mark Mulligan

18 Apr 2024

Bifurcation theory

future of music

One of things we pride ourselves on at MIDiA is helping the marketplace peer over the horizon with disruptive, forward-looking ideas and vision. We have a long track record of doing this (you can find a list of report links at the bottom of this post).

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Can’t cross the moat? Walk around it

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Mark Mulligan

12 Apr 2024

Creator economy

consumer creation

The music business is bifurcating. On one side, a new AI, fandom, and creation centred business is coalescing. On the other, the traditional business is pulling the draw bridge over its moat by pushing up streaming royalty thresholds to ensure the soon-to-explode long tail knows it is not welcome.

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The cultural pendulum swing is coming back around

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Tatiana Cirisano

11 Apr 2024

Music streaming

Across culture, there is an eerie sense of things coming full circle. After spending the past decade building an industry around ad-free streaming TV, Netflix has ads and feels increasingly like cable .

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Spotify wants to make podcasts a marketing driver for music

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Rutger Rosenborg

4 Apr 2024

Music streaming

Last summer, Variety published an article about the effect Alex Cooper’s Call Her Daddy podcast has on boosting the streams of her musician guests . According to Spotify, Anitta’s streams increased by 155%, Madison Beer’s by 130%, John Legend’s by 200%, and John Mayer’s by 350% after each artist appeared on Cooper’s show.

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Fan economy: expanded rights are worth $3.5 billion, now what?

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Mark Mulligan

3 Apr 2024

expanded rights

MIDiA recently, and exclusively, revealed that expanded rights now represent 10% of the recorded music market with revenues of $3.5 billion. These revenues, derived principally from monetising the brand of the artist (merch, sponsorships, branding, live, etc.

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Artist subscriptions and the myth of a silver bullet

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Tatiana Cirisano

28 Mar 2024

artist subscriptions

monetizing fandom

Artist subscriptions are back in the music industry discourse and the takes are piping hot. James Blake lit up X with his announcement of subscription platform Vault, Warner Music Group is building its own superfan platform, and Spotify confirmed that “superfan clubs” are soon to come.

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Artists need to place themselves at the centre of fan community-led commerce

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Keith Jopling

21 Mar 2024

The solution to artist remuneration and the next wave of music industry growth is already here: fan communities. Warner Music recently attracted attention with the news that it is developing a superfan app for artists, with the functionality to distribute content across multiple platforms and collect fan data along the way.

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Gender inequality in music mirrors the challenges of streaming… as do its opportunities for change

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Hanna Kahlert

20 Mar 2024

It has never been easier to become a music artist, but it has never been harder to turn that into a long-term career. A hyper-saturated content environment means record levels of competition and decreasing shares of stable revenues.

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