MIDiA Research

Spotify has double Apple Music’s subscribers with a 31% market share compared to Apple Music’s 15%, according to media and technology analysts, MIDiA Research in their Music market subscriber shares 2021 report. The global base of music subscribers continues to grow strongly with 523.9 million music subscribers at the end of Q2 2021, which was up by 109.5 million (26.4%) from one year earlier. Key findings from the report Spotify has the highest market share […]

Global music revenues reach $23.1 Bn in 2020 with a 7% annual growth despite pandemic according to media and technology analysts, MIDiA Research. The global pandemic caused widespread disruption to the music business, in particular decimating the live business and impacting publisher public performance royalties. Although the recorded music business experienced a dip in the earlier months of the pandemic, the remainder of the year saw industry revenue rebound, making it the sixth successive year of […]

Global music revenues hit $21.5 Bn in 2019 with a fifth successive year of growth according to media and technology analysts, MIDiA Research, in a recent blog posting. Global revenues grew by 11.4% in 2019 to reach $21.5 Bn, an increase of $2.2 Bn on 2018. Growth accelerated year on year and this was achieved even though streaming revenue growth slowed. Key trends in 2019 Independent artists make the biggest gains The major record labels […]