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Press Release: Qobuz Delivers 45.7% Revenue Growth in 2025ย in a Paid Music Streaming Market Growing at 8.8% (community.qobuz.com)
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Interesting numbers from Qobuz, a french music streaming service. But the press releases have slightly different emphasis on being european in the different languages.

The first paragraph of this press release in german reads (translated):

Qobuz proves that a European alternative that relies on sound quality and human curation can also find its audience in a mass market dominated by tech giants and achieve a positive balance.

In the french and english version it reads:

The success story of an independent French company that has become a global player alongside the music streaming giants.

It seems they only emphasize being european in the german press release, it's missing from the english and french version.

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[โ€“] abc@suppo.fi 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

That might just be a function of popularity and scale though. Spotify has 750M active users. Qobuz (by this article) reached 1.2M in 2025.

They might be paying more from the goodness of their hearts or they might be paying more because they have no leverage. As the artist, if you get roughly 70x more streamings but each streaming is half the price, you're gonna get more money obviously.

[โ€“] apotheotic@beehaw.org 4 points 3 days ago

Sure but evidently it is proving to be a profitable and sustainable business model