MIDiA is happy to announce our first ever mid-year recorded music mannequin. Shoppers can entry the info right here, which is revealed as a part of our H1 2025 music trade metrics report, containing greater than 40 pages of market metrics, firm financials, and shopper knowledge. Listed below are a number of of the important thing takeaways.
International recorded music revenues, inclusive of expanded rights, grew to $18.3 billion within the first half of 2025, with streaming persevering with to extend its share of revenues. Whereas this was a formidable mid-year milestone, market development is slowing, with H1 2025’s 5.9% development slower than within the first halves of each 2023 and 2024. Considerably, development not solely slowed in share phrases, absolutely the quantity of income added was additionally smaller.
Past simply recorded music, revenues grew throughout the overwhelming majority of the fifteen main, music trade corporations that MIDiA tracks, overlaying labels, publishers, DSPs, and reside. The mixed income of those corporations might have grown extra slowly in H1 2025, for the fourth successive 12 months no much less, however this obscures the truth that some areas of the music enterprise are having fun with considerably stronger development than others, particularly music publishers and DSPs.
Whereas reside music income development slowed since its post-pandemic bounce-back interval, each the music publishers and DSPs that MIDiA tracked noticed their half-year development charges improve between H1 2023 to H1 2025. The DSPs have been the fastest-growing a part of the music trade in H1 2025 and maybe most importantly, they added greater than twice the income added by the rights corporations tracked by MIDiA. A serious swing because the first half of 2022 when DSPs added solely a 3rd as a lot because the rightsholders did.
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Whereas the steadiness of music streamers continues to tip in direction of international south markets, their smaller ARPU charges restrict their revenues. In the meantime, periodic price-rises and the appearance of supremium will reinforce the contributions from the West. This report highlights streaming strongholds, these markets which, underscored by excessive music engagement and his…
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Though there are numerous caveats and particular company-level components at play, the general route of journey is of a worth shift throughout the streaming worth chain in direction of DSPs.
These are only a handful of the findings and insights from the 40+ web page report. Shoppers can dive into the H1 2025 music trade metrics report right here.
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