LONDON, July 10,
2024 /PRNewswire/ -- New analysis from Omdia has
revealed that Spotify overtook Universal Music Group (UMG) to
become the biggest music industry company in market capitalization
terms in the second quarter of 2024. According to the Omdia's
Music Industry Sharewatch, 2Q24, Spotify's market cap at the
end of June stood at $62.5bn compared
with $53.7bn for UMG. Spotify's
market cap increased 18.2% from $52.8bn at the end of the first quarter, while
UMG's edged down 1.5% from $54.5bn.
In a strong quarter for music streaming services, China's Tencent
Music Entertainment (TME) was third in the rankings. Its market cap
surged 26.3% to $24.1bn from
$19.1bn. As a result, Spotify's share
of the combined market cap of the 28 publicly listed music
companies tracked by Omdia rose to 28.7% from 24.9%. UMG's share
decreased, to 24.7% from 25.7%, while TME's share was up, to 11.1%
from 9%.
Of the 28 tracked companies, just eight registered an increase
in their share prices over the quarter. One (Mdundo) saw no change
and the other 19 recorded a negative performance. The Indian music
company Saregama was the top performer. Its share price opened on
April 1 at INR348.05 ($4.18) and closed on June
28 at INR555.45. The company's market cap in the quarter
increased, to $1.28bn from
$878m. At the other end of the scale,
Brazilian live music promoter suffered the biggest decline, with
its share price tumbling 50.7%, to BRL1.47 ($0.29)
from BRL2.98.
The combined market cap of the 28 companies ended June at
$217.5bn, compared with $212.4bn at the start of April and $194.2bn at the beginning of the year. Of the
total, US-listed companies accounted for 63.3% of the combined
end-June market cap total, with Netherlands-listed companies generating 24.7%,
and South Korean companies 4.3%. The market cap share for streaming
services stood at 41.2%, with record companies/music publishers
accounting for 38.8%.
"Spotify's impressive second quarter performance is a
continuation of its success from the first quarter of this year,"
said Simon Dyson, Senior Principal
Analyst at Omdia. "The share price has risen almost 70% so far this
year and has doubled since last October," Dyson added.
ABOUT OMDIA:
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Fasiha Khan
Fasiha.khan@informa.com
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