Recorded music market shares 2025 Expanded rights’ growing impact

Mark Mulligan

March 2026

Global recorded music revenues grew faster in 2025 than 2024, underpinned by a stable streaming sector and booming expanded rights revenue. Though expanded rights are still only a minority of total revenues, they are where the dynamic growth is and represent one of the key building blocks of tomorrow’s music business.

Key data and insights:

Global Recorded Music Revenues 2015-2025
Music Revenue market shares for Sony Music Publishing, Universal Music Publishing, Warner Chappell, Non-Major Labels, and Artist Direct
Music Revenue broken out by revenue stream, including streaming, other digital, physical music, licensing
Expanded rights music revenue and growth, split by major and non-major labels
Recorded Music Market Revenue, by Region
Major Streaming revenue by rightsholder segment (DSP, Major Publishers, Major Labels)

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MIDiA Research Global Recorded Music Market Shares Model 2025

Companies and brands mentioned in this report: Amuse, Avex, Believe, BandLab, BMG, Deezer, CD Baby, Discovery Mode, DistroKid, HYBE, JYP Entertainment, King Record, Merlin, Nippon Columbia, Pony Canyon, Sony Music Group, SM Entertainment Spotify, SoundCloud, TuneCore, Universal Music Group, Vap Inc, Warner Music Group, and YouTube

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