Blog: music formats

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Bifurcation theory | How today’s music business will become two

Mark Mulligan

18 Apr 2024

Bifurcation

bifurcation theory

future of music

One of things we pride ourselves on at MIDiA is helping the marketplace peer over the horizon with disruptive, forward-looking ideas and vision. We have a long track record of doing this (you can find...

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The music industry needs a new format

Mark Mulligan

20 Oct 2022

lean through

music product strategy

music formats

Non-DSP streaming was one of – arguably the – differences between steady growth and stellar growth for the music business in 2021. With three billion dollars of retail revenues in 2021, non-DSP has...

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Music Streaming Needs a New Future

Mark Mulligan

12 Jun 2020

Alibaba

China

Fandom

While doing some research on the Chinese streaming market I came across this fantastic UX tear down of Xiami Music . I recommend you read it in full. The day before I found this–also must-read–article...

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The Future of Music: A Vision of Post-Format

Mark Mulligan

18 Sep 2019

adele

Artists

Edison

Formats have shaped and dictated the evolution of recorded music. The constraints that formats set have, in turn, become the creative frameworks within which music has operated. Now, in the internet era,...

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Drake's More Life is the New Normal in Streaming

Zach Fuller

23 Mar 2017

Apple Music

compilation

Drake

Released over the weekend after much delay, Drake’s More Life project is setting records across the board on streaming platforms. The Canadian artist described More Life as ‘a body of work bridging...

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