Cloud Music Services Market by Type of Service (Downloadable, Subscription, Streaming and Others), by components (Front-end and Back-end), By end-user (Entertainment, Media and Communication and Other), Regional Analysis (North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, LAMEA): Global Opportunity Analysis and Industry Forecast, 2019–2026

Global Cloud Music Services Market Overview 2026:

Cloud music services are the services that allow users to save their music collection in the cloud and local storage devices. Cloud music services also allow the user to enable streaming with their multiple devices. These services typically use freemium model, where it gives allows the storage of the data free of cost up to a certain size and the user has to pay minimal charge for using cloud services. Many of the cloud services have interfaces that allow the user to access music with a wide variety of devices including MP3 players, computers, smartphones, video game consoles, and setup boxes. One can create a number of playlists and listen it from anywhere using the servers. In short, the cloud music services enable the user to search, maintain, store, streamline and sync their music preferences from anywhere at any time over their devices with the help of internet.

Driving Factors of Cloud Music Services Market:

The rising use of the smart phones and adoption of mobile cloud services is considered to be the major driving factor for the cloud music services market.

With the rise in the use of smartphones the use of music cloud services is also increasing at a faster rate. It eradicates the issue of storing the songs in the mobile. It allows the user to listen to his favorite playlist whenever they want with the use of the smartphones. Increasing number of smartphones have led to a higher adoption of the mobile cloud services which eventually has increased the mobile cloud services market. Moreover, with advanced technology related to mobile networks, the user can have high speed internet access to playlist over cloud and this is predicted to boost the cloud music service market.

High bandwidth with fast streaming is predicted to be the major restraints for the cloud music service market.

To stream a song online, there should be a high-speed bandwidth of the network, and to have a continuous streaming, there should be a strong network. Many of the developing countries lack strong network communication which can adversely affect the cloud music service market. Moreover, efforts made by telecommunication and government services to setup strong network communication may overcome the restraints in the coming years. Moreover, the privacy associated with the music library can be a major restrains for the market as it is not uncommon for users to share the id and password. 

Cloud Music Services Market Segmentation, by Type

Streamline service is a technology which allows the user to search and have a continuous data stream and monitor the status of the streaming. With the help of analytics, streaming can be done in real time, event processing and many more. It provides the value of insights derived from processing data and naturally fits with the time series data and detecting pattern over the time. Moreover, with time, the data becomes so huge that it is impossible to store it with the help of streamline, one can handle the huge firehose style data and can retain only useful bits. Due to the above-mentioned factors the streamline service is predicted to grow enormously in the forecast period.

Cloud Music Services Market by Component

The front end is the the user sees and he uses the fully loaded application for listening to the song. The music application codes the activity in an appropriate programming language and provides the user withthe right result. Back end is the main component where the operation takes place. The majority of the work takes place where the cloud exists. Each company uses thousands of servers to implement the function they have programmed due to which back end component is predicted to have the immense growth in the forecast period.

Cloud Music Services Market by End use

Advertisement based end use is predicted to have the maximum growth in the forecast period. The growth is attributed to an increasing shift in the behavior of the consumer who listens to songs by streaming online over downloading. In addition, due to a rise in the new entrants to the world of streaming, Ad-based streaming services are expected to rise the music firms, which is predicted to boost the cloud music services market in the forecast period.

Cloud Music Services Market by Region

The market is predicted to grow due to the high adoption of music streaming services, presence of local radio industry and expansion of vendors by collaborating with the artist to gain exclusive rights boosting the market in North America region in the forecast period. Asia-Pacific is predicted to grow immensely in the forecast period. The growth will be reinforced due to the rise in digitalization in the region with the rise in the population and rise in the awareness of the cloud music.

Key Players in Cloud Music Services Market:

The major players in the cloud music services market are Deezer SA, NetEase Inc., ASPIRO AB, Saavn Media Pvt Ltd, Pandora Media Inc., Times Internet, Google LLC, Amazon.com Inc., Apple Inc. and Spotify AB among others.