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Music publishing forecasts: strong growth and more to come

Mark Mulligan

15 Aug 2024

Following hot on the heels of our future of songwriting report , MIDiA is pleased to announce the release of our latest music publishing forecasts report . Here are some highlights. Thus far, the 2020s have been a good decade for the music publishing industry.

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A changing market

Mark Mulligan

18 Aug 2025

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Throughout the 2020s the music publishing market has outperformed that of the labels, though total revenues remain significantly smaller. The origins of this disparity lie in streaming royalty splits but publishers and CMOs have fought hard to increase their share and to start from a better position with the emerging formats that will shape tomorro...

TikTok highlights the importance of publishing — and lack of songwriter services

Tatiana Cirisano

29 Feb 2024

Social media TikTok songwriters

It is no news flash that the music business has a reputation for undervaluing songwriters. Despite being arguably the most important part of the song, the shift to streaming has been even more disastrous for songwriters’ remuneration than artists.

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Managed change

Mark Mulligan

29 Jul 2024

Business Strategy

Thus far, the 2020s has been a good decade for the music publishing industry. Revenues have continued to grow, streaming royalty rates have improved – spurred by favourable royalty rates board rulings in the US – and institutional investment has flowed into publishing catalogues, even after rising interest rates.

Songwriter survey 2025
Reinvention

Tatiana Cirisano and Olivia Jones

10 Jul 2025

songwriters songwriters Audience Insight

Songwriters face many of the same issues as artists – and are often doubly impacted by them. The struggle to earn meaningful streaming income is chief among these challenges, yet songwriters do not have the same fallback options, such as merchandise and touring, as artists do.

The countdown begins for audiobooks on Spotify

Rutger Rosenborg

23 May 2024

Spotify Audiobooks Music publishing

As Spotify rolls out music-like features for audiobooks, the company still finds itself at odds with the music business, courting one publishing industry while ruffling the feathers of another. So far, Spotify’s publisher dilemma is only intensifying, making it all the more interesting that the co...

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Songwriters, we want to hear from you! Raise your voice in MIDiA’s new survey

Tatiana Cirisano

27 Mar 2025

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Last year, MIDiA’s inaugural songwriter survey uncovered an alarming statistic: 67% of songwriters name “lack of meaningful streaming income” as their biggest challenge. More alarming yet is the fact that this remained the most common challenge for songwriters in our survey across income level...

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Songwriters take the stage
A new playbook for a new era

Tatiana Cirisano and Fernanda Balzaretti

31 Jul 2024

Streaming Spotify music industry

The streaming era upended the already-fraught business of being a songwriter, pushing songwriters to secure new revenue streams and better deal terms. While the recorded music industry has responded to similar shifts with a flourishing artist services market, the same is not true for songwriters.

MIDiA Research Opens Second Global Songwriter Survey to Tackle Industry Challenges

Tsion Tadesse

18 Mar 2025

Streaming Music US

[LONDON, March 18, 2025 ] — MIDiA Research has launched a new global survey aimed at uncovering the real-world experiences, income challenges, and career needs of songwriters — the creative forces behind today’s music industry.

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The rise of the songwriter ‘brand’

Tatiana Cirisano

23 Jul 2024

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If you have been drawn into the particular orbit of pop music that includes Olivia Rodrigo, Chappell Roan, and Sabrina Carpenter, you probably know a thing or two about Dan Nigro. Fans have been joining the dots between Nigro and this cluster of emergent pop artists on social media — not only disc...

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Recorded music market shares 2024
Widening gaps

Mark Mulligan and Tatiana Cirisano

13 Mar 2025

Music revenue Streaming Spotify

After a buoyant 2023, recorded music revenue growth slowed again in 2024, the fourth year of alternating growth rates. It was a year of varied fortunes across both formats and labels, but perhaps most crucially of all, a growing divergence between label streaming growth and DSP growth.

Platoon just quietly raised the bar for songwriter services

Tatiana Cirisano

11 Jul 2024

songwriting Music Business Strategy

Over the past few months, singer-songwriter RAYE has been using her spotlight to campaign for fairer pay for songwriters — advocating for them to receive royalty points on master recordings, per diems for studio time, and more.

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What indie book publishers can gain from audiobooks

Rutger Rosenborg

22 Feb 2024

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In the music industry, three major labels generate the lion’s share of revenue: Universal, Sony, and Warner. In the book publishing industry, the “big five” publishers dominate: Penguin Random House, Hachette, Macmillan, Simon & Schuster, and HarperCollins.

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publishing

Music publishing forecasts: strong growth and more to come

MIDiA Research 2025-2032 global music publishing forecasts
A changing market

TikTok highlights the importance of publishing — and lack of songwriter services

MIDiA Research 2024-2031 global music publishing forecasts
Managed change

Songwriter survey 2025
Reinvention

The countdown begins for audiobooks on Spotify

Songwriters, we want to hear from you! Raise your voice in MIDiA’s new survey

Songwriters take the stage
A new playbook for a new era

MIDiA Research Opens Second Global Songwriter Survey to Tackle Industry Challenges

The rise of the songwriter ‘brand’

Recorded music market shares 2024
Widening gaps

Platoon just quietly raised the bar for songwriter services

What indie book publishers can gain from audiobooks

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