Measuring the precise contribution of the impartial sector to the worldwide recorded music market is a crucial however troublesome job. The conventional mind-set about impartial market share is to take the full market and take away the majors’ revenues from that. But this ‘distribution’ foundation of market share under-represents independents as a result of the majors additionally distribute impartial labels and artists. The truest measure of the independents’ contribution is on a copyright possession foundation. This is a job MIDiA has performed for a few years now and an important enter into that is our international impartial label and distributor survey.
This survey is now reside and we encourage impartial labels and distributors of all sizes and geographies to finish it. The extra completes submitted, the extra correct the ultimate dataset shall be.Â
We use this survey to take the heart beat of what the impartial sector is pondering, what challenges and alternatives it’s going through, and as a measure of its industrial efficiency. Thus, confidentiality is completely essential. All responses to this survey are handled as strictly confidential, and no company-level information, nor company-level market share is shared with any celebration or introduced anyplace. This dedication has earnt the belief of impartial labels and distributors to gather their information and construct market-level datasets that they’ll profit from.
All survey respondents will obtain a abstract of the themes element of the survey (e.g., market sentiment, market alternatives, advertising challenges, and so forth.) and an entire abstract of the worldwide market shares dataset. In quick, MIDiA Research needs to make sure that all individuals profit from this market intel and might benchmark themselves in opposition to the market.
Take the survey right here:Â https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/TYVBLJL
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