This report contains all of Music Ally’s Country Profiles from the last 12 months, so you can spot the music industry trends across the regions that are most important to your work.
Category: Insight Reports
Our Insight Reports are published four times a year, and each is a deep-dive into the music and tech sectors that modern professionals need to be on top of: in-depth DSP analyses; a global focus edition; our essential music-tech startup guides; and our famous Marketing Campaigns of the Year report.
Music Ally Quarterly Report :: The State of Music Streaming – June 2023
Our Spring/Summer 2023 quarterly report takes a comprehensive look at the world’s music streaming platforms – and gives you an analytical snapshot of the market. Last year we noted that […]
Music Ally Quarterly Report :: Looking ahead to 2023
This report aims to provide cut-through on the big issues that we think will dominate 2023. In it, we’ve isolated the innovative ideas from some of the most influential thinkers across the […]
Music Ally Quarterly Report :: Music/tech Startups 2022
While NFTs stole the headlines in 2022, a raft of other exciting developments took place, and various music/tech startups took leaps and bounds as they strove to create new technological […]
Music Ally Quarterly Report :: International Focus 2022
Welcome to our second annual Music Ally International Focus report, where we zoom out and dig into the last 12 months of Music Ally’s Country Profiles. This is an utterly essential guide for the […]
Music Ally Quarterly Report :: The State of Music Streaming – May 2022
Our spring 2022 quarterly report is for anyone who engages with music streaming platforms and wants to maximise their success on them: i.e. you, quite probably. In this report, we take a comprehensive […]
REPORT: The role of playlisting in artist breakthrough moments on Spotify
This report was created by students of SMIX.LAB, a digital music business research centre at Popakademie Baden-Württemberg. Music Ally is their publishing partner for this original research, which uses Spotify data […]
Music Ally Quarterly Report :: The Trends Report – January 2022
The Trends Report is designed to set your synapses buzzing with ideas, and put you on the front foot in 2022. In it, we look back at what happened in 2021 – that most complex of […]
Music Ally Report :: Q3 2021 – music/tech startups focus
In this report, we’ve rounded up 60 startups that we think are particularly worthy of your attention. This is not a “best new startups of 2021” list – instead, it’s […]
Music Ally Report : Q2 International Focus
We’re trying something different with our Q2 report. From now on, it’s going to be our International Focus edition, gathering our country profiles from throughout the year into one report, for a snapshot […]
Music Ally Report : Q1 2021 Edition
Our main feature this quarter is an analysis of the UK’s music streaming economics inquiry, including its key talking points so far, and what might happen next. The report went […]
Music Ally End-of-Year Report :: 30 Trends of 2020
It’s time for our end-of-year trends report. And no, it’s not just a giant, printable poster of a Covid-19 virus. Nobody wants that on their wall. We couldn’t ignore the […]

