Australia Digital Music Forecast for online, mobile, and subscription channels, 2010 – 2014: Retail revenue in Australia’s digital music market to reach $274 million in 2014

• Publication date: September 2010

Executive Summary of IEMR's Asia Pacific Digital Music Forecast Paid download users of digital music in the Asia-Pacific region will increase from 421.5 million in 2009 to 925.8 million in 2014 Although consumers are willing to pay less for entertainment due to the economic downturn, we expect that the digital music market in Asia Pacific will continue to grow rapidly. IEMR estimates that the number of paid users will increase from 421....

Executive Summary of IEMR's Asia Pacific Digital Music Forecast

Paid download users of digital music in the Asia-Pacific region will increase from 421.5 million in 2009 to 925.8 million in 2014
Although consumers are willing to pay less for entertainment due to the economic downturn, we expect that the digital music market in Asia Pacific will continue to grow rapidly. IEMR estimates that the number of paid users will increase from 421.5 million in 2009 to 925.8 million in 2014, for a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 17.9% (previously 18.7%).

Mobile music download users in Asia Pacific will increase from 361.1 million in 2009 to 762.1 million in 2014
The majority of music downloads happen through the mobile channel in the Asia Pacific region. We expect that mobile music download users in Asia Pacific will increase from 361.1 million in 2009 to 762.1 million in 2014 (CAGR of 16.9%, previously 15.6%).

We think that both the online single download users and online subscription users will see a higher growth rate over our forecast period. Online single download users will increase from 54.6 million in 2009 to 148.2 million in 2014 at CAGR of 22.9%.

Digital music retail revenues in Asia Pacific will reach $13.7 billion in 2014, making the Asia-Pacific region the largest market for digital music retail revenues in the world
We expect that digital music download retail revenues will increase from $2.3 billion in 2009 to $13.7 billion in 2014, for a CAGR of 51.5%.

In the Asia Pacific region, most of the retail revenues come from mobile music downloads. Digital music retail revenues from the mobile channel will increase from $1.82 billion in 2009 to $10.9 billion in 2014, for a CAGR of 53.1%. On the other hand, retails revenues from online downloads (over the fixed network) will increase from $0.32 billion to $1.7 billion over the forecast period, 2010 – 2014.

Wireless Technology Industry in Australia

Forecasts for 2010 - 2014 (Historical data for 2008 - 2009)

Digital music download retail revenues ($ millions)
Online
Mobile
Subscriptions

Digital music download wholesale (record company) revenues ($ millions)
Online
Mobile
Subscriptions

Digital music download paid users (Thousands)
Online
Mobile
Subscriptions

Digital music download Average Revenue per User ($)
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Mobile
Subscriptions

Wireless Technology in Australia

Australia 3g & 4g Market As % Of Entire Mobile Market

• $ 250
• Industry data
• February 2013

Yearly, From 2003 To 2017
By Business Monitor International
Source: World Bank (International Telecommunications Union (ITU)), BMI research

• Industries : Wireless Technology
• Countries : Australia

Australia Wireless Voice And Wireless Data Revenue, Audmn

• $ 250
• Industry data
• February 2013

Yearly, From 2005 To 2011
By Business Monitor International
Source: BMI, operator results

• Industries : Wireless Technology
• Countries : Australia

Australia Wireless Service And Wireless Equipment Revenues, Audmn

• $ 250
• Industry data
• February 2013

Yearly, From 2005 To 2011
By Business Monitor International
Source: BMI, operator results

• Industries : Wireless Technology
• Countries : Australia

Australia Wireless Service And Wireless Equipment Revenues (eurmn)

• $ 250
• Industry data
• February 2013

Yearly, From 2005 To 2011
By Business Monitor International
Source: BMI, operator results

• Industries : Wireless Technology
• Countries : Australia

Australia Number Of Cellular Mobile Phone Subscribers (`000)

• $ 250
• Industry data
• February 2013

Yearly, From 2003 To 2017
By Business Monitor International
Source: World Bank (International Telecommunications Union (ITU)), BMI research

• Industries : Mobile Telephony, Wireless Technology
• Countries : Australia