Music Reports from MIDiA Research

Spotify Q3 2018 Earnings
Metrics on Track But Investors Not Convinced

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Mark Mulligan

November 2018

Spotify’s Q3 2018 earnings once again showed continued solid progress across most of its performance metrics, with strong progress in many areas. However, weakening investor confidence across...

Radio 2018
Streaming’s Continuing Impact

Mark Mulligan

October 2018

Streaming

Streaming Music

Spotify

This is a 2018 update to MIDiA’s 2017 report exploring the impact of streaming on radio audiences. The underlying data comes from MIDiA’s quarterly consumer tracker which was first fielded in Q4 2016....

Consumer Demand for Music Streaming Subscription Services

Mark Mulligan

October 2018

subscription services

paid subscriptions

Streaming music subscriptions

This slide deck highlights consumer demand for music subscription services and preferred features, with detail for sub segments such as country, age, streaming service and music genre. The data is pulled...

Speaker Market Shares
Amazon Ahead in a Crowded Market

Mark Mulligan

October 2018

Subscriptions

Streaming

Music Subscriptions

Digital music pushed music out of the home speaker and into the earphone. Over recent years this has created a booming market for headphones but speakers are fighting back, driven in large part by tech...

Headphones Market Shares
Apple Takes the Lead

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Mark Mulligan

October 2018

Subscriptions

Streaming

Music Subscriptions

Headphones are the physical manifestation of streaming music. With the focus of listening shifted from home speakers to smartphones, headphones have become ubiquitous. But, whereas convenience was...

MIDiA Data Spotlight: Music Listening
Car Leads the Way

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Mark Mulligan

September 2018

music consumption

music listening

places of listening

This is part of MIDiA’s data snapshot series in which we spotlight curated consumer datasets. Figure 1: Music Listening Mainly Happens on the Go Key Places of Listening to Music, Q1 2018 The car has...

MIDiA Data Spotlight: Music Consumption
YouTube and Radio Lead the Pack

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Mark Mulligan

September 2018

Radio

YouTube

free Streaming

This is part of MIDiA’s data snapshot series in which we spotlight curated consumer datasets. Figure 1: YouTube and Radio Dominate Music Consumption Key Music Consumption and Purchasing Behaviour, Q1...

Music Streaming Services Market Shares
H1 2018 Subscriber Share Update

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Mark Mulligan

September 2018

Subscriptions

Streaming

Music Subscriptions

This report provides a global level mid-year update to MIDiA’s Music Subscriber Market Shares report, presenting H1 2018 figures. Key Findings Music subscribers grew by 16% in the first half of 2018...

Pandora
Mapping Its Place in the US Streaming Market

Mark Mulligan

September 2018

Streaming

Streaming Music

Apple

Pandora is the granddaddy of streaming music, clocking 10 million active users before Spotify had even gone into public beta. It remains the most widely used audio streaming service in the US, but is no...

Streaming Services Market Shares 2.0

Mark Mulligan

August 2018

Subscriptions

Streaming

This report includes the key findings of MIDiA’s Global Music Subscriber Market Share Model in which we present the subscribers, revenues and market shares of streaming services in more than 20 different...

State of the YouTube Music Economy 2.0
A Turning Point for All Parties

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Mark Mulligan

August 2018

Streaming

Streaming Music

Spotify

This report is now into its second edition, updating the most comprehensive YouTube music dataset ever compiled in order to present all sides of the argument in an objective and impartial manner. The report...

Spotify Q2 2018 Earnings
More Needed from Emerging Markets and Ad Supported

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Mark Mulligan

July 2018

Subscriptions

Streaming

Streaming Music

Spotify’s Q2 2018 earnings show continued solid progress across most of its performance metrics. However, investor scrutiny is intensifying, especially with the growing subscriber arms race in the US...

Emerging Music Markets
Streaming’s Third Wave

Mark Mulligan

July 2018

Streaming

Streaming Music

Music Subscriptions

With streaming growth set to slow in mature western markets by 2019, the next wave of fast growth will come from a mixture of mid-tier markets such as Mexico, Brazil, Japan and Germany. Beyond that, the...

The Outlook for Music Catalogue
Streaming Changes Everything

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Mark Mulligan and Zach Fuller

June 2018

Spotify

Amazon

Napster

Catalogue was a real money spinner for the music industry throughout the sales era. First it underpinned the CD boom (convincing music fans to re-purchase old albums they already owned on prior formats)....

Global Music Distribution
A Buyer’s Market

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Mark Mulligan

May 2018

labels

Spotify

record labels

The internet was supposed to be the great leveller, enabling smaller artists and labels to reach global audiences in a way not previously possible. But, it turns out that getting music to these global...

Spotify Q1 2018 Earnings
Steady Course But Is It Enough?

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Mark Mulligan

May 2018

Subscriptions

Streaming

Streaming Music

On the 2 May 2018 Spotify released its first quarterly earnings. The results fundamentally represent a continuation of the figures presented in Spotify’s F1 filing and show strong results across most...

Recorded Music Market 2017
Streaming Accelerating Growth

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Mark Mulligan

April 2018

music sales

Streaming

Streaming Music

Recorded music revenues are booming and the distribution end of the value chain is both vibrant and competitive. This has not been the case for many, many years. Streaming is on course to become the main...

Making and Marketing an Artist
Streaming Rewrites the Rules, Again

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Mark Mulligan

April 2018

labels

Streaming

Streaming Music

Marketing is one of the core competencies of record labels. The rise of the internet and social media transformed label marketing strategies. Now streaming is turning everything upside down again. The...

Spotify by the Numbers
Trials, Churn and Margin

Mark Mulligan

March 2018

Apple

Spotify

This report presents analysis of Spotify’s key performance metrics as presented in the F1 filing in advance of its direct listing. The report focuses on business performance metrics, such as user acquisition...

Most Streamed Versus All Time Sellers
The Internationalisation Myth

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Zach Fuller

February 2018

Apple

Spotify

Deezer

As the music industry becomes a streaming industry in all but name, Spotify’s 100 most streamed tracks provide a window into how the overall industry has changed since the advent of access over...

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