Tag: market data

The Cannes Lions is very much a festival of Companies Showing How Deeply They Understand Generation-Z - two companies in our space included.

We already know that the superfandom around top K-Pop artists extends to buying albums rather than just streaming them.

This is part of some wider forecasts for the overall music streaming market, which J.P. Morgan expects to be worth $55bn by 2025.

The music industry loves Goldman Sachs' predictions for its future revenues: the kind of big numbers that get investors salivating.

According to the IFPI, Sub-Saharan Africa generated $70.1m of revenues from recorded music in 2021.

Newzoo is one of the research firms that knows its onions when it comes to games and esports, so its latest predictions for the latter sector are useful reading

Remember the speculation – very much encouraged by Spotify – that it was overtaking Apple for podcast listening?

Music Tomorrow has published an study of some of Spotify's top playlists, analysing the respective shares of major and independent labels.

The electronic music sector has bounced back from the Covid-19 hit it took in 2020, but has yet to regain its pre-pandemic heights.

Smart-links company Linktree has been running the numbers for its 2022 Creator Report, based on interviews with more than 9,500 people who are creating content for social media platforms.

There are also some interesting quarterly charts of the top music and audio apps ranked by downloads.

Research journal Music & Copyright has published its annual market-share figures for music publishers and labels, covering 2021.