Recorded music market shares 2025 Expanded rights’ growing impact
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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 Universal Music Group, Sony Music Group, Warner Music Group, 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)
This report sources data from:
- 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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