Reports: Music Industry

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Most Streamed Versus All Time Sellers
The Internationalisation Myth

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Zach Fuller
Apple
Spotify
Deezer
As the music industry becomes a streaming industry in all but name, Spotify’s 100 most streamed tracks provide a window into how the overall industry has changed since the advent of access over ownership. Although arguably just a snapshot of an era, a comparison between the two reveals recent trends within music pertaining to genre popularity and collaborative efforts versus solo releases.
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Playlisting and the Demographic Destiny of Streaming

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Zach Fuller
Streaming
Spotify
YouTube
With playlists representing streaming’s lingua franca, the dramatic shifts in consumption they are powering are rewriting the rule books on music marketing, music formats and revenue generation, all in one swoop. Though the rate of change is partially offset by the grandfathering of the download format and, in certain cases, the resistance of physical markets (Germany and Japan), the economics of playlist monetisation is a rude awakening for the industry at large.
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Radio Is Streaming’s Next Frontier
How Streaming Will Disrupt Radio Like It Did Retail

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Mark Mulligan
Streaming
Streaming Music
Apple
Streaming’s first achievement was becoming a long-term successor to retail, now it has its sights set on doing the same to radio. Even though the revenue per user is much smaller, the addressable market is far higher. Streaming’s post-radio strategy has the potential to be much more far reaching and impactful than subscriptions have been in terms of audience impact at scale.
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State Of The Streaming Nation 2.1 (Mid-Year 2017 Update)
The Definitive Assessment Of The Global Streaming Music Market

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Mark Mulligan
Subscriptions
Streaming
Streaming Music
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 spent the year competing with ever more impressive metric, while playlisting and streaming exclusives became cornerstones of the wider music market both culturally and commercially.
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Streaming Services Market Shares
Spotify Leads Across Most Markets

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Mark Mulligan
Subscriptions
Streaming
Music Subscriptions
This report includes the key findings of MIDiA’s Global Music Subscriber Market Share Model in which we present the subscribers, revenues and market shares of streaming services in more than 20 different countries. This report contains charts and analysis for 11 countries including consumer survey data, while the complete excel model is posted alongside this report.
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Spotify Earnings
Growth Still Comes At A Cost

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Mark Mulligan
Streaming
Streaming Music
Spotify
Spotify’s 2016 accounts reveal strong growth in both revenue and user, as well as improved conversion to paid. But they also show growing losses (both in absolute and relative terms) for streaming music’s leading player. The health of Spotify is a bellwether for the health of the streaming music market and its current prognosis is that it is fit and healthy now, but that will end sometime unless it improves its lifestyle.
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State Of The Streaming Nation 2
The Definitive Assessment Of The Global Streaming Music Market

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Mark Mulligan
Subscriptions
Streaming
Streaming Music
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 spent the year competing with ever more impressive metrics while playlisting and streaming exclusives became cornerstones of the wider music market both culturally and commercially.
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Streaming Music Growth
How The S-Curve Will Determine Growth

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Mark Mulligan
Consumer behaviour
Streaming
Streaming Music
Streaming music drove trade revenues of $5.4 billion in 2016, up 57% from $3.5 billion in 2015 while music subscribers grew from 68.5 million to 106.3 million over the same period. The rate at which the streaming music market will grow, and the level at which it will peak, is determined not just by industry strategy but also by the underlying laws of consumer adoption.
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