Mobile Music Services Market Research Report from ABI Research

Mobile Music Services

Full Tracks, Ringtones, and Ringback Tones - What Mobile Music Downloads Will Mean to the Music Industry

This report examines the current mobile landscape and the role of music as a mobile service. Specific topics addressed include digital music downloads, ringtones, streaming music services, digital music codecs and DRM. Market forecasts for overall mobile digital music downloads, mobile music downloads, and ringtone (monophonic, polyphonic, master-tracks/real-tone, and ring-back tones) downloads are also included and encompass numbers of files of each type downloaded by region, and revenue forecasts for each region by ringtone type.

What Does This Report Answer?

What market opportunity is created by digital music downloads?
What does the current mobile digital music landscape looks like? How it will evolve over the next five years?
What roles and opportunities are available to operators, handset vendors, record labels, music services and aggregators?

Who Needs This Report?

Mobile operators
Digital music service providers
Record labels and publishers
Handset manufacturers

1.1 Introduction
1.2 Types of Mobile Music Media and Services
1.2.1 Ringtones
1.2.1.1 Monophonic and Polyphonic
1.2.1.2 Ringback Tones
1.2.1.3 Realtone Ringtones
1.2.1.3.1 Realtone Standards
1.2.2 Full-Track Downloads
1.2.3 Radio and Streaming Services
1.2.3.1 FM Radio
1.2.3.2 Satellite
1.2.3.3 Online Services
1.3 Conclusions
Section 2 Mobile Music Ecosystem and Players
2.1 Mobile Music Ecosystem and Players
2.1.1 Operators
2.1.1.1 Operator Challenges in Full-Track Downloads
2.1.2 Record Labels
2.1.3 Artists
2.1.4 Distribution Services and Aggregators
2.2 Digital Music Distribution Models
2.2.1 Pay-per-Song
2.2.2 Song Rental
2.2.3 Streamed Music Services
2.3 Handset Manufacturers
2.4 Conclusions
Section 3 Digital Music Technology: Formats, Codecs, and DRM
3.1 Digital Audio Formats and Technology
3.1.1 What Is a Digital Music File?
3.1.2 Proprietary versus Non-Proprietary Formats
3.1.2.1 Non-Proprietary (Standard) Digital Audio Codecs
3.1.2.2 Proprietary Digital Audio File Codecs
3.1.2.2.1 Proprietary MPEG-Based Digital Audio Formats
3.1.2.2.2 Proprietary Non-MPEG–Based Digital Audio Formats
3.2 Digital Rights Management
3.3 Conclusions
Section 4 Music Market Forecasts
4.1 Mobile Music Market Forecasts
4.1.1 Forecast Methodology
4.1.2 New Product Diffusion Model
4.1.3 Deriving the Growth Coefficients
4.2 Ringtone Downloads
4.2.1 Monotone Ringtones
4.2.1.1 Asia-Pacific Monotone Ringtone Forecasts
4.2.1.2 Western European Monotone Ringtone Forecasts
4.2.1.3 Eastern European Monotone Ringtone Forecasts
4.2.1.4 North American Monotone Ringtone Forecasts
4.2.1.5 South American Monotone Ringtone Forecasts
4.2.1.6 Africa–ME Monotone Ringtone Forecasts
4.2.1.7 Global Monotone Ringtone Forecasts
4.2.2 Polyphonic Ringtones
4.2.2.1 Asia-Pacific Polyphonic Ringtone Forecasts
4.2.2.2 Western European Polyphonic Ringtone Forecasts
4.2.2.3 Eastern European Polyphonic Ringtone Forecasts
4.2.2.4 North American Polyphonic Ringtone Forecasts
4.2.2.5 South American Polyphonic Ringtone Forecasts
4.2.2.6 Africa–ME Polyphonic Ringtone Forecasts
4.2.2.7 Global Polyphonic Ringtone Forecasts
4.2.3 Realtone Ringtones
4.2.3.1 Asia-Pacific Realtone Ringtone Forecasts
4.2.3.2 Western European Realtone Ringtone Forecasts
4.2.3.3 Eastern European Realtone Ringtone Forecasts
4.2.3.4 North American Realtone Ringtone Forecasts
4.2.3.5 South American Realtone Ringtone Forecasts
4.2.3.6 Africa–ME Realtone Ringtone Forecasts
4.2.3.7 Global Realtone Ringtone Forecasts
4.2.4 Ringback Ringtones
4.2.4.1 Asia-Pacific Ringback Ringtone Forecasts
4.2.4.2 Western European Ringback Ringtone Forecasts
4.2.4.3 Eastern European Ringback Ringtone Forecasts
4.2.4.4 North American Ringback Ringtone Forecasts
4.2.4.5 South American Ringback Ringtone Forecasts
4.2.4.6 Africa-ME Ringback Ringtone Forecasts
4.2.4.7 Global Ringback Ringtone Forecasts
4.3 Over-the-Air Mobile Music Downloads
4.3.1 Asia-Pacific Over-the-Air Music Download Forecasts
4.3.2 Western European Over-the-Air Music Download Forecasts
4.3.3 Eastern European Over-the-Air Music Download Forecasts
4.3.4 North American Over-the-Air Music Download Forecasts
4.3.5 South American Over-the-Air Music Download Forecasts
4.3.6 Africa–ME Over-the-Air Music Download Forecasts
4.3.7 Global Over-the-Air Music Download Forecasts
4.4 Conclusions
Section 5 Vendor Profiles
5.1 Operators
5.1.1 AMP’d Mobile
5.1.2 Cingular
5.1.3 Hutchison “3”
5.1.4 KDDI
5.1.5 NTT DoCoMo
5.1.6 SK Telecom
5.1.7 Sprint Nextel
5.1.8 Verizon Wireless
5.1.9 Vodafone
5.2 Handset Vendors
5.2.1 Motorola
5.2.2 Nokia
5.2.3 Samsung
5.2.4 Sony Ericsson
5.3 Service Vendors
5.3.1 Ericsson
5.3.2 Gracenote
5.3.3 Groove Mobile
5.3.4 iRadio (Motorola)
5.3.5 Loudeye
5.3.6 MediaPass
5.3.7 Melodeo
5.3.8 Musiwave
5.3.9 Sydus Mobile
5.4 Storage/Memory Manufacturers
5.4.1 Cornice
5.5 Recording Labels
5.5.1 EMI
5.5.2 Sony BMG Music Entertainment
5.5.3 Universal
5.5.4 Warner Music Group
5.6 Key Findings and Conclusions
Appendix A Company Directory
AMP'd Mobile
Cingular Wireless
Cornice
EMI
Ericsson Incorporated
Gracenote
Groove Mobile
Hutchison 3G: UK
KDDI
Loudeye
MediaPass
Melodeo
Motorola Inc
Musiwave
Nokia
NTT DoCoMo
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
SK Telecom
Sony BMG Music Entertainment
Sony Ericsson
Sprint Nextel Corp
Sydus Mobile
Universal Music Group
Verizon Wireless: USA
Vodafone Group (HC)
Warner Music Group Appendix B Acronyms

Tables and Charts

Mobile Music Download Revenue, World Market: 2004 to 2011
Net Subscriber Adoption Profile
Music and Ringtone Revenue, Global, by Region, Forecasts: 2004 to 2011
Monotone Ringtone Revenue, Global, by Region, Forecasts: 2004 to 2011
Polyphonic Ringtone Revenue, Global, by Region, Forecasts: 2004 to 2011
Realtone Ringtone Revenue, Global, by Region, Forecasts: 2004 to 2011
Ringback Ringtone Revenue, Global, by Region, Forecasts: 2004 to 2011
Full-Track Over-the-Air Music Sales, Global, by Region, Forecasts: 2004 to 2011
Chaku-uta Full Tracks Sold by KDDI: January 5, 2005, Through December 28, 2005
Total Mobile Music Download Revenue, World Market, by Region, Forecasts: 2004 to 2011
Common Music Codecs or File Format, Global
Digital Music-Capable Handsets by Region, World Market
Mobile Handsets with FM Receivers by Region, World Market
Monotone Ringtone Download Revenue, World Market, by Region, Forecasts: 2004 to 2011
Polyphonic Ringtone Download Revenue, World Market, by Region, Forecasts: 2004 to 2011
Realtone Ringtone Download Revenue, World Market, by Region, Forecasts: 2004 to 2011
Ringback Ringtone Download Revenue, World Market, by Region, Forecasts: 2004 to 2011
Total Annual OTA Music Downloads, World Market, by Region, Forecasts: 2004 to 2011
OTA Music Downloads Revenue, World Market, by Region, Forecasts: 2004 to 2011
Total Mobile Music and Ringtone Download Revenue, World Market, by Region, Forecasts: 2004 to 2011

Report Code: RR-MUSD

Number of Pages:	73

Number of Tables, Charts and Figures:	11

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Release Date:	2Q 2006

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