Music sync market forecast
Production libraries raise the pitch

Report by Kriss Thakrar and Tatiana Cirisano

27 Jul 2022

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Music

business strategy

20,000 foot view:  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...

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Building a fan economy with Fan-Powered Royalties

Report by Kriss Thakrar, Tatiana Cirisano and Perry Gresham

12 Jul 2022

Free Report

Music

Music streaming has helped the music industry return to growth over the past decade, but many creators feel left behind. The streaming economy has reached a point where the creator remuneration gap can...

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

Report by Mark Mulligan

5 Jul 2022

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Music

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...

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The future of music
The rise of a counterculture industry

Report by Mark Mulligan, Kriss Thakrar and Tatiana Cirisano

30 Jun 2022

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music industry

music streaming

fandom

20,000 foot view:  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...

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Music creator survey, Q4 2021
Redefining success

Report by Tatiana Cirisano

31 May 2022

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Music

20,000 foot view:  As the barriers to music creation continue to lower, more creators enter the field, yet it is becoming harder than ever to earn a living through music, with a finite amount of revenue...

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The Attention Recession
How inflation and the pandemic are reshaping entertainment

Report by Mark Mulligan, Tim Mulligan, Karol Severin, Hanna Kahlert, Tatiana Cirisano and Annie Langston

27 May 2022

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Video

Music

Games

With the recent announcement of the 0.2 million subscriber drop in Netflix’s Q1 2022 figures, and Spotify seeing slower paid user growth, MIDiA’s predicted attention recession has come into fruition....

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

Report by Hanna Kahlert, Srishti Das and Tatiana Cirisano

5 May 2022

Free Report

Music

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,...

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BE THE CHANGE – Women In Music 2022

Report by Hanna Kahlert, Srishti Das and Tatiana Cirisano

4 May 2022

Free Report

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...

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Music industry earnings 2021
Riding the wave

Report by Mark Mulligan

24 Apr 2022

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streaming music

earnings

music earnings

20,000 foot view:  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...

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

Report by Kriss Thakrar and Tatiana Cirisano

31 Mar 2022

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Music

Investment

music streaming

  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...

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Recorded music market 2021
Red letter year

Report by Mark Mulligan

17 Mar 2022

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Music

recorded music 2021

recorded music

The 20,000 foot view 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...

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Music consumer survey, Q3 2021
A new generation leans forward

Report by Tatiana Cirisano

28 Feb 2022

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Creaudio

audio audiences

audio consumers

  As streaming subscriptions rise and music increasingly competes with other forms of media for consumers’ limited attention spans, lean-back listening activities are taking precedence over those which...

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Music creators
Slicing the funnel

Report by Mark Mulligan, Kriss Thakrar and Tatiana Cirisano

18 Feb 2022

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Music

  Streaming enabled the rise of the independent artist and then the rise of the music creator. The promise of the long tail finally appeared to be realised. But the pandemic’s disruption of live music...

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

Report by Tatiana Cirisano

28 Jan 2022

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live streaming

live music

Live entertainment

  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,...

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Music market subscriber shares 2021
Growth is not letting up yet

Report by Mark Mulligan

22 Dec 2021

streaming

music streaming

subscriptions

  This report presents key figures from MIDiA’s global music subscriber market shares model. The full dataset is published alongside this report, with quarterly data (from Q4 2015 to Q1 2021) and annual...

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Spotify Q3 2021 earnings
Premium matures as advertising accelerates

Report by Mark Mulligan

30 Nov 2021

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  Spotify is in a transition phase. Monthly active user (MAU) growth bounced back, but user growth is in a mid-term slowdown phase while the business begins its transition to emerging markets and ad-based...

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Karaoke app user deep dive

Report by Mark Mulligan

30 Nov 2021

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mobile apps

next gen apps

apps

This report presents data concerning karaoke app users. This data is taken from MIDiA’s Q3 2021 consumer survey. The online survey comprised 9,000 respondents across the US, Canada, Australia, UK, Germany,...

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Growth from Transparency
Reframing the value of music through creator rights

Report by Mark Mulligan, Keith Jopling, Srishti Das and Kriss Thakrar

12 Nov 2021

Free Report

creator rights

Utopia

Music

The music industry has been through an unprecedented period of change over the past five years.Innovations in live streaming, games, user-generated content (UGC), digital art, and trading of rights represent...

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Independent label market shares
Up on all counts

Report by Mark Mulligan

28 Oct 2021

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record labels

independent labels

record label market shares

  This report presents record label market share that is measured not just by label reported revenues, but also by separating the revenues of independent labels that are distributed by major label groups,...

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Live streamed events consumer behaviour
Q2 2021

Report by Mark Mulligan

7 Oct 2021

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live streaming

live music

Live entertainment

This report looks at live stream audience data and audience behaviour trends with regards to live streamed events.  Methodological notes:  The Brazil self-reported, live streamed penetration rate from...

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