Music Reports from MIDiA Research

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Speaker Market Shares
Amazon Ahead in a Crowded Market

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Report by Mark Mulligan

16 Oct 2018

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Subscriptions

Streaming

Music Subscriptions

Digital music pushed music out of the home speaker and into the earphone. Over recent years this has created a booming market for headphones but speakers are fighting back, driven in large part by tech...

Headphones Market Shares
Apple Takes the Lead

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Report by Mark Mulligan

15 Oct 2018

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Subscriptions

Streaming

Music Subscriptions

Headphones are the physical manifestation of streaming music. With the focus of listening shifted from home speakers to smartphones, headphones have become ubiquitous. But, whereas convenience was...

MIDiA Data Spotlight: Music Listening
Car Leads the Way

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Report by Mark Mulligan

27 Sep 2018

music consumption

music listening

places of listening

This is part of MIDiA’s data snapshot series in which we spotlight curated consumer datasets. Figure 1: Music Listening Mainly Happens on the Go Key Places of Listening to Music, Q1 2018 The car has...

MIDiA Data Spotlight: Music Consumption
YouTube and Radio Lead the Pack

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Report by Mark Mulligan

26 Sep 2018

Radio

YouTube

free Streaming

This is part of MIDiA’s data snapshot series in which we spotlight curated consumer datasets. Figure 1: YouTube and Radio Dominate Music Consumption Key Music Consumption and Purchasing Behaviour, Q1...

Music Streaming Services Market Shares
H1 2018 Subscriber Share Update

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Report by Mark Mulligan

13 Sep 2018

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Subscriptions

Streaming

Music Subscriptions

This report provides a global level mid-year update to MIDiA’s Music Subscriber Market Shares report, presenting H1 2018 figures. Key Findings Music subscribers grew by 16% in the first half of 2018...

Pandora
Mapping Its Place in the US Streaming Market

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Report by Mark Mulligan

7 Sep 2018

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Streaming

Streaming Music

Apple

Pandora is the granddaddy of streaming music, clocking 10 million active users before Spotify had even gone into public beta. It remains the most widely used audio streaming service in the US, but is...

Streaming Services Market Shares 2.0

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Report by Mark Mulligan

30 Aug 2018

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Subscriptions

Subscriptions

Streaming

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...

State of the YouTube Music Economy 2.0
A Turning Point for All Parties

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Report by Mark Mulligan

14 Aug 2018

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Streaming

Streaming Music

Spotify

This report is now into its second edition, updating the most comprehensive YouTube music dataset ever compiled in order to present all sides of the argument in an objective and impartial manner. The...

Spotify Q2 2018 Earnings
More Needed from Emerging Markets and Ad Supported

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Report by Mark Mulligan

30 Jul 2018

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Subscriptions

Streaming

Streaming Music

Spotify’s Q2 2018 earnings show continued solid progress across most of its performance metrics. However, investor scrutiny is intensifying, especially with the growing subscriber arms race in the US...

Emerging Music Markets
Streaming’s Third Wave

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Report by Mark Mulligan

9 Jul 2018

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Streaming

Streaming Music

Music Subscriptions

With streaming growth set to slow in mature western markets by 2019, the next wave of fast growth will come from a mixture of mid-tier markets such as Mexico, Brazil, Japan and Germany. Beyond that, the...

The Outlook for Music Catalogue
Streaming Changes Everything

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Report by Mark Mulligan and Zach Fuller

14 Jun 2018

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Spotify

Amazon

Napster

Catalogue was a real money spinner for the music industry throughout the sales era. First it underpinned the CD boom (convincing music fans to re-purchase old albums they already owned on prior formats)....

Global Music Distribution
A Buyer’s Market

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Report by Mark Mulligan

25 May 2018

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labels

Spotify

record labels

The internet was supposed to be the great leveller, enabling smaller artists and labels to reach global audiences in a way not previously possible. But, it turns out that getting music to these global...

Spotify Q1 2018 Earnings
Steady Course But Is It Enough?

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Report by Mark Mulligan

7 May 2018

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Subscriptions

Streaming

Streaming Music

On the 2 May 2018 Spotify released its first quarterly earnings. The results fundamentally represent a continuation of the figures presented in Spotify’s F1 filing and show strong results across most...

Recorded Music Market 2017
Streaming Accelerating Growth

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Report by Mark Mulligan

11 Apr 2018

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music sales

Streaming

Streaming Music

Recorded music revenues are booming and the distribution end of the value chain is both vibrant and competitive. This has not been the case for many, many years. Streaming is on course to become the main...

Making and Marketing an Artist
Streaming Rewrites the Rules, Again

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Report by Mark Mulligan

4 Apr 2018

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labels

Streaming

Streaming Music

Marketing is one of the core competencies of record labels. The rise of the internet and social media transformed label marketing strategies. Now streaming is turning everything upside down again. The...

Spotify by the Numbers
Trials, Churn and Margin

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Report by Mark Mulligan

26 Mar 2018

Apple

Apple

Spotify

This report presents analysis of Spotify’s key performance metrics as presented in the F1 filing in advance of its direct listing. The report focuses on business performance metrics, such as user acquisition...

Most Streamed Versus All Time Sellers
The Internationalisation Myth

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Report by Zach Fuller

26 Feb 2018

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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...

Playlisting and the Demographic Destiny of Streaming

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Report by Zach Fuller

29 Jan 2018

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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...

Awakening
The Music Industry in the Digital Age

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Report by Mark Mulligan

1 Jan 2018

music industry

digital age

In June 1999 a software programme developed by a college dropout changed the music industry forever. It triggered a transformation that threw decades’ worth of accepted wisdom out of the window and sent...

Streaming Peaks
What Playlist And Binge-Watching Trends Signify For Streaming

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Report by Mark Mulligan

21 Dec 2017

Streaming

Streaming Music

YouTube

Streaming is transforming music and video consumption, creating new business models and behaviours. 2017 was a strong year for both sectors but growth is not uniformly distributed. Video subscriptions...

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