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The global music streaming market has seen remarkable growth, with annual revenues increasing by an average of 887% in 2020, and a specific increase of 20% in 2020.
In France, streaming has followed a similar trajectory, with average annual growth of 45% in 2020. Dominated by Deezer and Spotify, the French market also faces competition from GAFAs such as Apple Music, YouTube Music and Amazon Music.
In 2020, around two-thirds of French consumers will be regular music listeners, including 88% of 16-24 year-olds.
The market is experiencing tensions over artist remuneration, with no regulations currently addressing this issue.
Analysis of music demand in the digital age
On average, people spend between 12 and 14 hours a week listening to their favorite songs, with relaxation, household chores and public transport cited as notable contexts for music consumption.
French chanson, international pop/rock and urban music are the favorites. The French and international markets reflect a penchant for local artists, who dominate the national charts.
Despite the digital shift, an interesting trend is the resurgence of vinyl.
The user base of streaming platforms is close to 20 million. This base includes both premium subscriptions, the main revenue driver, and advertising-supported freemium models. Premium subscriptions saw a compound annual growth rate of around 30% in 2020.
Music streaming players
- Deezer, a service of French origin, stands out for its strong partnership with telecommunications giant Orange.
- Spotify, the platform that redefined the music listening experience with its early adoption of the "freemium" model, blending ad-supported accessibility with premium subscriptions.
- Apple Music relies on its ecosystem, offering seamless integration on Apple devices
- Youtube Music, under the aegis of Google, leverages the video platform's huge collection of music videos and user base.
- Amazon Music adds value to Prime subscriptions
These platforms find themselves at the heart of debates on artist remuneration and regulatory needs, and are shaping the future of entertainment consumption.
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1.1 INTRODUCTION
The music streaming market includes all the platforms and players that allow streaming music online. The music streaming market is part of the giant that is the music industry, with the advent of new technologies pushing to changes in consumer habits, audio streaming has been able to make a very important place and especially very quickly in the music market, to the detriment of the physical sales (CDs, vinyls, ...).
Globally, music streaming revenue has grown by an average of 887% every year over 15 years (2005 - 2020) and the market is still not out of breath as it has grown by 20% between 2019 and 2020. In France streaming is following the same momentum, with an average annual growth of 45% between 2014 and 2020, without having been really impacted by the health crisis.
In France, the music streaming market is dominated by the two giants of the sector, Deezer and Spotify, but with the arrival of the GAFAs who are taking more and more market share with their platforms Apple Music, Youtube Music or Amazon Music
Despite the undeniable success of streaming, it is nevertheless subject to many controversies, with movements such as "Justice at Spotify" giving voice to the issue of artist remuneration by streaming platforms. With no regulations in place, this growing market is likely to undergo changes, especially in terms of regulations
List of charts presented in this market study
- Chiffre d'affaires de l'industrie musicale enregistrée totale et du streaming musical
- Répartition du chiffre d'affaires de l'industrie de la musique
- Chiffre d'affaires du streaming par régions du monde
- Places to listen to music
- Main genres listened to
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Latest news
Sony aims to consolidate its presence in webtoons and digital manga - 13/05/2024
- - Proposed purchase of Infocom by Sony Music Entertainment: $1.3 billion.
- - Infocom owns Mecha Comics, a manga and webtoon distribution platform
- - Mecha Comics revenues for last fiscal year: 340 million euros.
- - Japanese manga publishing sales in 2022: 677 billion yen (4.3 billion euros).
- - Sales of digital manga in 2022: 447.9 billion yen (2.8 billion euros).
- - Paper manga sales in 2022: 175.4 billion yen (1.1 billion euros).
Spotify to French rightsholders up 13% in 2023 - 01/05/2024
- In 2023, Spotify paid out more than **253 million euros** to French rights holders.
- - 13% growth on the previous year (approximately 225 million in 2022).
- - The French recorded music market grew by just 6%, according to SNEP.
- - Independent artists, labels and distributors receive over 65% of Spotify's total revenue.
- - Worldwide, independents accounted for half of Spotify's €9 billion payout to the industry in 2023.
- - Tracks by French artists made up 71% of the daily Top 50 in France on Spotify in 2023.
- - French artists were discovered around 4.8 billion times on Spotify internationally in 2023.
- - More than half of the revenue generated by French artists in 2023 came from international sources.
- - Aya Nakamura is cited as the most exported French artist on Spotify.
Warner, a new way of remunerating musicians on its way to Deezer. - 13/11/2023
- Deezer is implementing a new "artist-centric" remuneration model for France.
- A second major player, Warner Music Group, is joining the movement.
- Since October 1, streams in France by artists from Ed Sheeran's label have been counted according to this new method.
- According to this new method, a listen counts double when it concerns artists exceeding 1,000 monthly streams with at least 500 unique listeners.
- The Deezer platform also limits monetization to a maximum of 1,000 streams per user per month.
- Deezer has undertaken an extensive clean-up of its 200 million-track catalog to eliminate non-musical content.
- With the addition of Warner, two of the three majors have joined the model promoted by Deezer.
- According to Deezer's CEO, over 50% of streams are already accounted for using this new method.
- Changes to Spotify's remuneration model are expected in the first quarter of 2024.
Disney slowly begins to recover - 09/11/2023
- Its subscriber base, including Disney Hotstar in India, is 150.2 million.
- Disney's streaming revenues reached $5 billion, up from $4.5 billion last year.
- Revenues from Disney's traditional TV channels fell by 9% year-on-year.
- Disney has invested a minimum of $8.6 billion to fully own Hulu.
Disney buys Hulu for $8.6 billion. - 03/11/2023
- Disney plans to buy the remaining shares in Hulu for a minimum of $8.6 billion.
- Comcast subsidiary NBC Universal owns the 33% of Hulu not held by Disney.
- Disney bought 21st Century Fox in 2019, giving it a two-thirds stake in Hulu.
- Hulu is currently valued at $27.5 billion.
- Hulu has 50 million subscribers. Disney also owns a streaming platform, Disney+, and ESPN+
- Netflix has 247 million subscribers.
Deezer returns to subscriber growth - 27/10/2023
- Subscriber base of 9.9 million (+4.9% year-on-year)
- Focus on markets where the company is well positioned, such as France, Germany, Mexico and Brazil
- The French market saw a 7.3% year-on-year increase in the number of subscribers.
- The rate of growth is lower than that of Swedish leader Spotify, which a few days ago announced a 16% year-on-year increase in the number of subscribers, to a total of 226 million.
- Believe, the French specialist in digital distribution and services for musicians and labels, this week reported organic sales growth of +7.5% (+15.4% excluding currency impact) in the third quarter.
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