Reports: Music Industry

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Music and AI
Beyond the hype cycle

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Tatiana Cirisano

December 2023

AI

Business Strategy

As with any emerging technology, recent advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) have set in motion a flurry of excitement and investment, as well as fear and litigation. In this environment, it is...

Music industry earnings H1 2023
Dawn of the post-streaming era

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Tatiana Cirisano

November 2023

Business Strategy

The post-pandemic revenue bump is settling and challenges, including the cost-of-living crisis and a Russo-Ukrainian war, continue to complicate the global economic climate. This report considers the impact...

Misaligned incentives
The cost of a broken business

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Tatiana Cirisano

September 2023

Business Strategy

Many of the music industry’s current woes can be traced back to misaligned incentives. Current streaming economics push record labels, streaming services, and artists in conflicting directions: Labels...

Artist subscriptions are the superfan opportunity

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Mark Mulligan, Kriss Thakrar and Tatiana Cirisano

August 2023

Business Strategy

Streaming is at a tipping point. Revenue growth slowed to 6.0% in 2022, labels want new royalty systems, consumption is commodified, TikTok is diluting cultural capital, creators are questioning effort...

MIDiA Research 2023-2030 global music forecasts
Speed bump

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Mark Mulligan

June 2023

Business Strategy

2022 was a tumultuous year for the global economy, with factors such as high rates of inflation, rising interest rates, a growing cost-of-living crisis, post-Covid supply chain issues, and the Russo-Ukrainian...

Data briefing
South Korea music market

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Mark Mulligan

June 2023

Business Strategy

This report presents key music market metrics for South Korea. All data is domestic SouthKorean data unless otherwise stated below. The datasets leveraged for this report include: Music company financials...

Recorded music market 2022
Reality bites

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Mark Mulligan

March 2023

TuneCore

Music streaming

Kobalt

Following a spectacular year of growth in 2021, global recorded music revenue growth slowed significantly in 2022, due to the combined impact of global economic headwinds and growth slowdown in mature...

Music industry earnings Q3 2022
Pre-recession growth

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Mark Mulligan

December 2022

Spotify

Pandora

Slacker

The early 2020s saw an influx of capital into the music business, with the promise of music rights being an asset class that was uncorrelated with the wider economy. The irony is that as music catalogue...

Music subscriber market shares 2022
Chinese Dragon

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Mark Mulligan

December 2022

Business Strategy

As the world edges towards a recession, the music streaming market continues to stand strong. Despite indications of slowdown in some markets, the global music subscriber market remains buoyant. Growth,...

A field of all levels
Strategizing music’s attention economy

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Tatiana Cirisano

November 2022

Consumer behaviour

Music creators

Record labels

Over roughly the past decade, each stage in the evolution of the attention economy accelerated the pace of fragmentation and oversaturation in music, unearthing new challenges for each micro-generation...

Streaming’s next growth phase
The necessity of differentiation

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Tatiana Cirisano

October 2022

Apple

Spotify

YouTube

DSPs have long been able to grow their subscriber bases despite all offering essentially the same experience. Yet the freemium model is reaching a saturation point, putting slow but steady pressure on...

Music sync market forecast
Production libraries raise the pitch

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Kriss Thakrar and Tatiana Cirisano

July 2022

YouTube

SoundCloud

Netflix

Amid fragmenting fandom and the attention recession, sync is more important than ever as a tool for both revenue generation and marketing. There are also dozens of emerging use cases for sync, from creator...

MIDiA Research 2022-2030 global music forecasts
The new era of growth

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Mark Mulligan

July 2022

Business Strategy

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 labeltrade values and are in billions of US dollars...

The future of music
The rise of a counterculture industry

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Mark Mulligan, Kriss Thakrar and Tatiana Cirisano

June 2022

Consumer behaviour

Spotify

Music creators

Music streaming and the attention recession have turned music into a background activity. Artists en masse are struggling to cut through the noise, realising that streaming is neither a place to build...

Women In Music 2022
Deutsch, Español, Français, Italiano, Nederlands, Português

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Hanna Kahlert, Srishti Das and Tatiana Cirisano

May 2022

Business Strategy

Audience Insight

BE THE CHANGE – Women In Music 2022. The report and executive summary are here available to download in French, and the executive summary is further available to download in German, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese,...

BE THE CHANGE – Women In Music 2022

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Hanna Kahlert, Srishti Das and Tatiana Cirisano

May 2022

Music

The last two years of pandemic-driven disruption in the music industry may just have created a window of opportunity for real change in the fight for gender equality. The next generation of women music...

Music industry earnings 2021
Riding the wave

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Mark Mulligan

April 2022

Streaming Music

Spotify

Pandora

In this report MIDiA presents, contrasts and analyses headline financial metrics of 12 leading music industry companies across labels, publishers, streaming and live. The companies tracked represent more...

Music catalogue acquisition
Picking apart the $5 billion competition for icons

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Kriss Thakrar and Tatiana Cirisano

March 2022

investment

Music streaming

music catalogue

A variety of economic factors and stock market volatility during the coronavirus pandemic helped establish music as an attractive asset class for institutional investors. With labels, publishers, institutional...

Recorded music market 2021
Red letter year

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Mark Mulligan

March 2022

Streaming Music

Recorded music

independent labels

MIDiA suggested in 2020 that 2021 was going to be a strong year for the recorded music market. Indeed, 2021 turned out to be the fastest-growing year in living memory, with growth across most formats –...

State of the live streaming nation
Reframing the format post-lockdown

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Tatiana Cirisano

January 2022

Consumer behaviour

live music

Gaming

The loss of touring income during the global pandemic spurred fast growth in a previously niche concert live streaming ecosystem. However, as the world begins to re-open and physical touring resumes, the...

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