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Music subscriber market shares 2022

Mark Mulligan

7 Dec 2022

Music subscriber shares

music subscribers

dsps

MIDiA has just released its annual ‘Music subscriber market shares’ report and dataset, with data for 23 DSPs across 33 different markets ( clients can access it here ). Here are some of the key global...

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Music subscriber market shares Q2 2021

Mark Mulligan

18 Jan 2022

subscriber market shares

streaming market shares

market shares

MIDiA’s annual music subscriber market shares report is now available here (see below for more details of the report). Here are some of the key findings. The global base of music subscribers continues...

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Global music subscriber market shares Q1 2021

Mark Mulligan

9 Jul 2021

music subscribers

subscriber market shares

Streaming

The music industry’s growing obsession with declining ARPU will continue to colour the outlook for the global streaming market in revenue terms, but the positive driver of this equation is the rapid...

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Music Subscriber Market Shares Q1 2020

Mark Mulligan

23 Jun 2020

Streaming

music subscribers

music subscriber market shares

WWDC would have been a perfect opportunity for Apple to announce another streaming milestone for Apple Music. It didn’t but the good news is that MIDiA already have a figure for Apple Music, as part...

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Amazon Music: From Dark Horse to Thoroughbred

Mark Mulligan

22 Jan 2020

Amazon Music

amazon music unlimited

Amazon Prime Music

Neatly ahead of Spotify’s Q4 earnings, Amazon has taken the rare step of announcing subscriber metrics for Amazon Music (inclusive of Prime Music and Music Unlimited). Amazon Music closed 2019 with 55...

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Spotify Illustrates the Difference Between Flat Engagement and Real Sentiment

Hanna Kahlert

14 Jan 2020

consumer engagement

engagement metrics

Fandom

Q3 2019 was a quarter of mixed fortunes for Spotify, with its subscriber base displaying consistent growth, podcasts making a solid early showing, emerging markets demonstrating promise but ad revenue...

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Elvis Presley and the Two Recorded Music Industries

Zach Fuller

16 Aug 2017

elvis Presley

legacy formats

music subscribers

Today marks 40 years since the passing of Elvis Presley. Whilst ‘The King’s’ emergence has come to represent a cultural year zero for the music industry, his icon status in recent years has taken...

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Streaming Music Pricing: Inelastic Stretching

Mark Mulligan

7 Feb 2017

music pricing

music subscribers

Music Subscriptions

Pricing has long been an issue for streaming music subscriptions, with the $/€/£ 9.99 price point above what most people spend on music each month. Streaming services have navigated around the issue...

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Chart Of The Week: Music Subscribers Vs Video Subscribers

Mark Mulligan

29 Feb 2016

Chart Of The Week

Music

music subscribers

2015 was a big year for streaming music but it was a bigger deal for streaming video, generating $16 billion in revenue compared to $4.5 billion for streaming music. (Both figures are retail values). The...

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MIDiA Chart Of The Week: How Music Measures Up Against Video

Mark Mulligan

23 Nov 2015

Chart Of The Week

Music

Music Streaming

The music industry has long been viewed as a canary in the mine for how media industries transition into the digital era. In many respects that role has now been outlived. Book publishers quickly realised...

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MIDiA Chart Of The Week: Listening Habits Of Streaming Music Consumers

Mark Mulligan

2 Nov 2015

albums

Chart Of The Week

Deezer

Although the relatively early stage of development of the streaming market means that most listening habits are not yet being changed, there are fundamental shifts emerging among streamers and subscribers...

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