RAIN Notes: December 12
New year forecasting – MIDiA Research
Massive aggregation – AcastBest – NPR
Hot Smart Rich(er) – Steven Bartlett
For early-stagers – Podcast Creator Summit Continue Reading
MIDiA Research
RAIN Notes: October 6, 2025
— A most ambitious ranker / University of St. Andrews
— Core strength / MIDiA Research
— Taylor Swift fails miserably to beat first-day streaming record / Spotify
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RAIN Notes: July 2
Welcoming – New York Public Radio
Targeting 1,000,000,000 (One Hundred Billion) – MiDIA Research
Supporters Support – Edison Research Continue Reading
2024 global music market growth: Slowed but still significant. Think three dozen billion.
UK-based MIDiA Research has released the 2024 edition of its recorded music market shares report. The top line here has two parts: Overall global recorded music revenue ($36.2 billion), and Annual growth (6.5%). Click for much more and an illustrative infographic.
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RAIN Notes: November 20
— Following TheMoney (Sort Of) (Milly Botes)
— Benchmark Survey; New Questions (Jacobs Media)
— Shade (Ari Herstand) Continue Reading
RAIN Notes: November 19
— A New Deal (Acast)
–The Tops (Edison Research)
— Keys, Shifts, and Trends (MIDiA Research) Continue Reading
Falling and rising (Tik Tok and Spotify)
— One Falls, Another Rises…
— …Although It Was Rising Anyway Continue Reading
RAIN Notes: September 23
— Dead Or Alive? (Hear Me Out podcast)
— A Happy Return (Matty Staudt) Continue Reading
RAIN Notes: September 20
— Two Paths Diverged In a PDF (IMIDiA Research)
— A Vital Guide (Jack Myers) Continue Reading
MiDIA Research launches “The Frequency Factor,” tracking intraday music app use
“Daily just isn’t enough,” claims Mark Mulligan, Managing Director and Analyst at MIDiA Research and RAIN guest columnist. He is referring to studies which measure usage and audience size. His solution? Intraday usage tracking, That view yields a surprising ranker. Click for graphs and explanations. Continue Reading
RAIN Notes: Wednesday, April 17
— All The Ears (Spotify)
— The More Things Change… (MIDiA Research)
— Crossing Borders (Acast)
2022 global recorded music earned $31B, grew 6.7%: MIDiA Research
MIDiA notes that 2022 totals represent “a year of realignment for much of the global economy.” The research firm observes that 2021 was a boom year, possibly driven by the global Covid phenomenon. 2022 growth was not as boomy, but still a robust stoary of growing revenue. Continue Reading