Reports: Music Industry

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MIDiA Research 2025-2032 global music publishing forecasts
A changing market

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Mark Mulligan

August 2025

Music creators

Music creators

Music publishing

Throughout the 2020s the music publishing market has outperformed that of the labels, though total revenues remain significantly smaller. The origins of this disparity lie in streaming royalty splits but publishers and CMOs have fought hard to increase their share and to start from a better position with the emerging formats that will shape tomorro...

Streaming strongholds
High-potential markets for global music players

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Perry Gresham

August 2025

ARPU

Labels

Streaming

While the balance of music streamers continues to tip towards global south markets, their smaller ARPU rates limit their revenues. Meanwhile, periodic price-rises and the advent of supremium will reinforce the contributions from the West. This report highlights streaming strongholds, those markets which, underscored by high music engagement and his...

Songwriter survey 2025
Reinvention

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Tatiana Cirisano and Olivia Jones

July 2025

songwriters

songwriters

Audience Insight

Songwriters face many of the same issues as artists – and are often doubly impacted by them. The struggle to earn meaningful streaming income is chief among these challenges, yet songwriters do not have the same fallback options, such as merchandise and touring, as artists do.

MIDiA Research 2025-2032 global music forecasts
Recalibration

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Mark Mulligan, Tatiana Cirisano, Perry Gresham and Mark Qi

June 2025

Global

Business Strategy

global music forecasts

This report presents the key figures, trends, and drivers of MIDiA’s music forecast model. The figures presented in this report are both retail and label trade values, and they are in billions of US dollars – unless otherwise stated. An Excel file posted alongside this report provides complete country-level data, including DSP market shares and...

International success for local language artists
A strategic playbook

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Laura Fisher

June 2025

UK

France

Spotify

The music industry is undergoing a paradigm shift. Success once required artists to fit the traditional industry model where anglicisation and relocation to traditional hubs like Los Angeles, New York, or London were prerequisites. Streaming platforms have democratised access, enabling artists to achieve international fame while remaining culturall...

Label services vendor landscape
Rise of the atomised label

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Olivia Jones

May 2025

Innovation

Labels

Artists

The label services sector has emerged as a way for independent labels to provide artists with best-in-class tools without having to build those tools in-house. This shift towards atomised labels has created a new opportunity for label service vendors to establish a stronghold in the music industry.

Music catalogue market 2.0
Bringing yesterday’s hits into the business of tomorrow

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Tatiana Cirisano and Olivia Jones

May 2025

BMG

Round Hill Music

T-pain

The music catalogue acquisition market bounced back from a slightly cooled 2023 with a new fever in 2024. What is being bought is changing, however, as investors look to diversify their portfolios and uncover new growth pockets in an increasingly crowded market.

Breaking saturation
Music streaming pricing strategy

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Tatiana Cirisano and Perry Gresham

April 2025

Labels

Subscriptions

Streaming

Nearly two decades into the streaming era, established subscription markets like the US are approaching saturation. While growth pockets for standard subscriptions remain, the next stage is about raising average revenue per user through both price increases and user segmentation.

Music subscriber market shares Q4 2024
Full stream ahead

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Mark Mulligan, Tatiana Cirisano, Mark Qi, Olivia Jones and Laura Fisher

March 2025

music subscriber market shares

Business Strategy

Streaming market metrics are bifurcating. Label streaming revenues were up in 2024, indicating a much anticipated slow down in revenue growth. Yet, at the same time, music subscriber growth was nearly double that of label streaming revenues for 2024. As is so often the case, there are many factors at play.

Recorded music market shares 2024
Widening gaps

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Mark Mulligan and Tatiana Cirisano

March 2025

Music revenue

Streaming

Spotify

After a buoyant 2023, recorded music revenue growth slowed again in 2024, the fourth year of alternating growth rates. It was a year of varied fortunes across both formats and labels, but perhaps most crucially of all, a growing divergence between label streaming growth and DSP growth.

Music streaming consumer profile Q4 2024
Stabilisation and fandom slowdown

Mark Mulligan and Tatiana Cirisano

February 2025

Willingness to pay

Music consumers

Streaming

Consumer music behaviours are both stabilising and showing signs of coming change. Change that could be challenging for all music business stakeholders, especially with regards to fandom monetisation. This report presents data-focused visuals and impactful analysis of trends and anomalies that will inform your understanding of what is happening to ...

Q3 2024 music metrics
Maturation effect

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Mark Mulligan

December 2024

Business Strategy

This report presents MIDiA consumer data for key music consumer behaviours and company financials for Q3 2024.Consumer data covered includes, streaming app usage, music behaviour and streaming activities. Company financials covers record labels, music publishers, DSPs, and live music companies.

State of the independent music economy
Fragmentation and consolidation

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Mark Mulligan and Tatiana Cirisano

October 2024

Business Strategy

independent label market shares

Independent label market shares by region

This report presents the results of MIDiA’s annual independent label and distributor survey, as well as the most comprehensive market sizing of the non-major label sector ever conducted. Built on revenue data for 5,500 companies, we present the definitive view of the independent music economy, with market sizing, regional trends, the companies to...

O mercado brasileiro de música
Rumo ao estrelato

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Leo Morel and Tatiana Cirisano

September 2024

Business Strategy

Grande parte da população do Brasil adotou o streaming como formato de consumo musical. Atualmente, ele é o principal formato de consumo do país, correspondente a 82% de sua receita de música gravada. Isto, atrelada a forte conexão dos brasileiros com a música, está contribuindo para expandir as fronteiras da música local, com o funk brasi...

Brazil music market
Ready for prime time

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Tatiana Cirisano and Leo Morel

September 2024

Business Strategy

Brazil’s large, youthful population has fully embraced streaming. It is now the country’s top consumption format and the source of 82% of its recorded music revenue. This is helping Brazilians’ strong connection to music reach across borders, with the Brazilian funk genre and artists like Anitta becoming global sensations.

Q2 2024 music metrics
Bifurcation is here

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Mark Mulligan and Tatiana Cirisano

September 2024

Business Strategy

This report presents MIDiA consumer data for key music consumer behaviours and company financials for Q2 2024. Consumer data covered includes, streaming app usage, music behaviour, and streaming activities. Company financials covers record labels, music publishers, DSPs, and live music companies.

French music consumer user profile
Unlocking fandom

Tatiana Cirisano

August 2024

Audience Insight

This report presents MIDiA consumer data for key music behaviours of French consumers. Key data and insights in this report: Monthly music streaming behaviours of French consumers Listening habits of French consumers, monthly, weekly, and daily breakdown French popular radio station daily and weekly usage French daily active usage, weekly active us...

Songwriters take the stage
A new playbook for a new era

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Tatiana Cirisano and Fernanda Balzaretti

July 2024

Streaming

Spotify

music industry

The streaming era upended the already-fraught business of being a songwriter, pushing songwriters to secure new revenue streams and better deal terms. While the recorded music industry has responded to similar shifts with a flourishing artist services market, the same is not true for songwriters.

MIDiA Research 2024-2031 global music publishing forecasts
Managed change

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Mark Mulligan

July 2024

Business Strategy

Thus far, the 2020s has been a good decade for the music publishing industry. Revenues have continued to grow, streaming royalty rates have improved – spurred by favourable royalty rates board rulings in the US – and institutional investment has flowed into publishing catalogues, even after rising interest rates.

The state of music AI
The consumer opportunity lies in modification, not generation

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Tatiana Cirisano and Hanna Kahlert

June 2024

Consumer behaviour

music industry

Music publishing

MIDiA previously predicted that generative artificial intelligence (gen AI) would accelerate music’s “Instagram moment”, where consumers could create and remix music as easily and often as they post photos and videos on social media. However, just because everyone can do these things does not mean everyone will want to.

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