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Assessing the streaming opportunity: You’re doing it wrong

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

9 Apr 2021

TAM

SAM

SOM

Buoyed by lockdown, streaming enjoyed another strong year in 2020, up 17.1% on 2019 according to MIDiA’s recorded music market shares report . But the revenue slowdown will come in 2021, driven by the...

Streaming Is Finally Beginning to Turn the German Market

Blog post by Zach Fuller

4 Dec 2019

german music market

Germany

Streaming

Still the fourth-largest market by revenue after the US, UK and Japan, Germany has been comparatively slow to make the digital transition while remaining a key territory for record labels due to its scale,...

The Classical Music Market - Streaming's Next Genre?

Blog post by Dara Jegede

19 Jun 2019

classical music

idagio

Music Subscriptions

When IDAGIO commissioned MIDiA to explore the classical music audience globally, we were excited to validate the hypothesis that a classical music resurgence was possible in today’s on-demand music streaming...

What’s In A Number: Can Streaming Really Be Worth $28 Billion?

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

30 Aug 2017

goldman sachs

lehman brothers

Streaming

Goldman Sachs just made some headlines with its assessment that Universal Music is worth $23.5 billion and that the paid streaming market will be worth $28 billion in 2030 (up from $3.5 billion in 2016...

Announcing MIDiA’s State Of The Streaming Nation 2 Report

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

5 Jun 2017

7Digital

Alibaba

Amazon

2016 was the year that streaming turned the recorded music business into a good news story, with revenue growth so strong that it drove nearly a billion dollars of total growth. Leading streaming services...