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Music x Climate

Hanna Kahlert

7 Dec 2023

Free Report

Audience Insight

As 2023 draws to a close, and the United Nations Climate Change Conference takes place for the 28th year, it is an important time for the music industry to reflect on our impact on the environment and how we can do better. This could take a variety of forms.

How Spotify’s new model could accelerate a forking of music

Tatiana Cirisano

2 Nov 2023

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Spotify’s new royalty model is the latest attempt to try to bring streaming royalties in line with the dynamics of todays’ streaming market. It has many laudable objectives and intentions, but there is no escaping the threat perceived by artists and companies that operate in the long tail.

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Quick take: The games industry health check

Karol Severin

27 Feb 2024

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In recent weeks and months, a growing number of people have been asking: “What is going on with the games industry?”, “Is the games industry doomed now?”, “Is it done growing?”, “If neither a new Switch or GTA 6 are getting released this year, is the games industry going to have a weak...

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Data briefing
South Korea music market

Mark Mulligan

1 Jun 2023

Business Strategy

This report presents key music market metrics for South Korea. All data is domestic SouthKorean data unless otherwise stated below. The datasets leveraged for this report include: Music company financials and market shares. This data refers to revenue generated by South Korean companies and thus includes both domestic and international revenue MIDi...

What podcast slowdown? 1.2 billion people will be listening by 2030

Rutger Rosenborg

11 Apr 2024

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Is podcasting slowing or growing? Both, as it turns out. With marketing and advertising budget cuts contributing to layoffs and cancellations at major podcasting players like Spotify and NPR, 2023 was an uncertain time for the podcast industry.

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MIDiA music forecasts: the new era of growth

Mark Mulligan

14 Jul 2022

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MIDiA has just published its latest music forecasts, available to clients in full here . Here are some of the highlights. 2021 was a huge year for the recorded music business with retail values up 23% to reach $51.

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Popular Spotify podcasts are driving listeners to music streaming

Rutger Rosenborg

17 Jun 2024

Free Report

As one of the top platforms for both podcasts and music, it is in Spotify’s best interest to encourage cross-format pollination. That is why Spotify periodically shares data indicating that artist appearances on popular podcasts make a meaningful impact on those artists’ streaming numbers.

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Data Explorer

Warner Bros Discovery Video Subscriptions Forecast

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Music subscriber market shares Q3 2023
New momentum

Mark Mulligan

30 Jan 2024

Business Strategy

This report presents MIDiA’s music subscriber market shares report and various MIDiA consumer surveys. All music subscriber data in this report refers to third quarters of each respective year. Numbers are always in millions, unless otherwise stated.

How PlayStation broke its hardware and active user records in Q4

Rhys Elliott

13 Feb 2025

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Sony released its financial results for calendar Q4 2024. Here are the high-level results: Sony generated revenues of $27.9 billion As always, its Game & Network Services (G&NS) Segment – PlayStation – was the biggest segment (38%) Sony Music accounted for 11% and Sony Pictures for 9% of...

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Nintendo’s earnings highlight Mario's unfaltering popularity, despite the Switch running out of steam

Rhys Elliott

6 Feb 2025

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Nintendo released its nine-month earnings ending December 31, 2024. Its revenues were $6.1 billion, dropping 31.4% year on year, with: Nintendo’s dedicated platforms (hardware, software, subscriptions, and accessories) accounting for 94.

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Misaligned incentives make the music business a zero-sum game

Tatiana Cirisano

17 Aug 2023

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“Pop Stars Aren’t Popping Like They Used To”, Billboard ’s Elias Leight writes in a recent article, in which record label executives stress over the struggle to break new artists. The article (or at least, the headline) stirred up a storm on Twitter — ahem, X — last week, where many user...

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A new era of ‘fan-made’ music is about to begin

Kriss Thakrar

30 Aug 2023

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Since MIDiA’s comments on TikTok’s music production ambitions more than two years ago, a lot has changed. Consumers have become bolder and more engaged in playing an active role in their music consumption.

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Dawn of the post-streaming era

Tatiana Cirisano

21 Nov 2023

Business Strategy

The post-pandemic revenue bump is settling and challenges, including the cost-of-living crisis and a Russo-Ukrainian war, continue to complicate the global economic climate. This report considers the impact of these factors, and others, in analysing the revenues of leading music companies across recorded music, publishing, live, and streaming for t...

How live music will change in the next decade

Tatiana Cirisano

20 Jul 2023

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The pandemic sent shock waves through the live music industry — a historic, catastrophic disruption to a decades-old business. But just because touring is back, does not mean that we are in the clear.

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Games industry returns to growth, but inflationary pressures will make it worse off still

Karol Severin

7 Nov 2023

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Following over a decade of stellar growth (for an industry that is 50-years-old), the growth pace of the global video games industry has arguably peaked. The grand finale of its growth heyday was artificially fuelled by the Covid bounce in 2020 (26.

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State of the music creator economy
The consumer era

Mark Mulligan

12 Dec 2023

Product Strategy

The pandemic triggered a surge in the music creator economy, which brought with it an influx of external interest and investment. 2022 saw growth moderate, but the long-term outlook is not only strong, it will also be supercharged by the consumerization of creation.

Who tomorrow's music business is being built for

Tatiana Cirisano

22 Jun 2023

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The creator tools industry, meaning the market for music-making hardware and software, has historically served as the funnel to the recorded music industry. At the centre of that industry are big record labels, which trade on career artists.

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Will ByteDance build the first cultural graph for music recommendations?

Tatiana Cirisano

11 Jul 2023

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ByteDance’s long-awaited new subscription streaming app, TikTok Music, is here, with an initial launch in Indonesia and Brazil. The news overshadowed the US beta launch of ByteDance’s new music creation app, Ripple, which is likely to make waves.

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Are the ongoing layoffs in games indicative of a wider issue in the games industry?

Karol Severin

6 Oct 2023

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The layoffs wildfire that struck the games industry at the start of 2023 does not seem to be stopping - the most recent being Epic Games last week. Firstly, on a personal level, it has been really sad and upsetting to see all these people being laid off in 2023 – especially when the reasons behind...

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