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What UMG’s IPO Means for the Business of Music

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

14 Feb 2020

Finishing 2019 on $6.4 billion, Universal Music is to go to IPO hot on the heels of Warner Music’s announcement to do the same. This of course also follows the Tencent-led agreement to acquire 10%…

Amazon Music: From Dark Horse to Thoroughbred

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

22 Jan 2020

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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…

Just What Is a Podcast, Anyway?

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

17 Jan 2020

audio

audio strategy

Media

The podcast market – as with all media – is going through dramatic change, stretching the very meaning of what podcasts even are. To understand this fast-changing market, it is important to think…

Quick Take: If We Are Moving from an Attention Economy to a Sentiment Economy, Is Music Still Undervalued?

Blog post by Zach Fuller

19 Dec 2019

music industry

music streaming

post-peak attention

Applying economics to music often invites groans from music fans, but here goes…. The recorded music market is currently worth $18.8 billion dollars a year, and thanks to streaming that number is growing.…

How Will Finance’s Interest in Music Impact the Industry Compared to Big Tech?

Blog post by Zach Fuller

16 Dec 2019

big tech

facebook

facebook music

With Hipgnosis continuing to acquire copyright, coupled with Warner Music Group and Providence Equity’s announcement of Tempo Music Investments, the finance industry’s interest in the recorded music…

Post-Peak Attention and the Case for Micropayments

Blog post by Zach Fuller

9 Dec 2019

Blockchain

Innovation

Media

Success in new business paradigms involves wasting what is abundant to capture what is scarce. The Industrial Revolution did this by taking advantage of technologies that used the finite resource of human…

Music Subscriber Market Shares H1 2019

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

5 Dec 2019

amazon music

Deezer

google

The global streaming market continues to grow at pace. At the end of June 2019 there were 304.9 million music subscribers globally. That was up 34 million on the end of 2018, while the June 2018 to June…

Streaming Is Finally Beginning to Turn the German Market

Blog post by Zach Fuller

4 Dec 2019

german music market

Germany

streaming

Still the fourth-largest market by revenue after the US, UK and Japan, Germany has been comparatively slow to make the digital transition while remaining a key territory for record labels due to its scale,…

Why the Music Industry Needs Bytedance to Disrupt It

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

18 Nov 2019

Innovation

Music

Back in September 2018 I suggested that Spotify faced a Tencent risk, with the potential of Tencent launching a competitive offering in markets that Spotify is not yet in. This would effectively divide…

Seven Developments in Recorded Music in the 2010s (and the Songs that Defined them)

Blog post by Zach Fuller

6 Nov 2019

cardi b

cultural insight

Drake

Decade retrospectives are almost doomed to fail. Assess the 60s in 1969 and you would have likely overweighed the influence of Grand Funk Railroad compared to The Velvet Underground. When it comes to the…

The Classical Music Market - Streaming's Next Genre?

Blog post by Dara Jegede

19 Jun 2019

classical music

idagio

music subscriptions

When IDAGIO commissioned MIDiA to explore the classical music audience globally, we were excited to validate the hypothesis that a classical music resurgence was possible in today’s on-demand music streaming…

Quick Take: Spotify, Stories and Music – the Social Media Divide

Blog post by Zach Fuller

16 May 2019

instagram

social media

Spotify

The story of a song’s creation is one of the great mysteries of music. Regularly are we regaled with anecdotes of a song emerging fully formed in a 15-minute flurry of creative genius. However, while…

The Digital Music Week In Review 20 5 16

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

20 May 2016

adele

BPI

digital music

This is first in a semi-regular round up of what’s caught our eye in digital music over the last week: Facebook’s Slideshow could kill off Flipagram but I wouldn’t be so so worried if I was Musical.ly,…

Chart Of The Week: Music Aficionados

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

16 May 2016

Chart Of The Week

consumer segmentation

Music

Music Aficionados are consumers that spend above average time and money with music. They represent just 17% of all consumers but a whopping 61% of all recorded music spending. These consumers shape the…

A High Tide Rises All Streaming Boats, For Now…

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

27 Apr 2016

apple music

Music

music subscriptions

Against the backdrop of the first quarterly drop in revenue in 13 years and a sharp decline in China revenue, Apple Music at least had some good news in the shape of continued solid growth for Apple Music,…

State Of The Streaming Nation

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

5 Apr 2016

apple music

Deezer

emerging markets

We are proud to announce a landmark MIDiA report: State Of The Streaming Nation: A Comprehensive Assessment Of The Global Streaming Music Market . If you are in any way involved with the streaming music…

Don't Write Pandora Off Just Yet

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

29 Mar 2016

apple music

iHeart Media

Music

Pandora has made the news again with founder Tim Westergren stepping up to the role of CEO, replacing Brain McAndrews. These are certainly uncertain times for Pandora, once the stand out success story…

Chart Of The Week. Playlists 1, Albums 0 – How Streaming Is Changing Music Listening

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

21 Mar 2016

albums

Chart Of The Week

The album has been under assault ever since Napster first gave consumers the ability cherry pick their favourite tracks and leave the filler behind. Apple formalised the process with the iTunes Store and…

Bad Data Is The Worm In The Apple For Streaming Music

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

14 Mar 2016

7Digital

Bad Data

data

2016 is proving to be tricky year for streaming rights. No sooner did it start to look like artists and labels were beginning to feel comfortable with streaming then along come a veritable flood of songwriter…

Music Piracy Hasn't Gone, It Has Merely Changed Its Spots

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

14 Mar 2016

Chart Of The Week

mobile piracy

While the music industry slowly got its head around the brave new world of digital in the 2000’s piracy used to be the dominant focus of record labels and their trade associations. Now, with so much…

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