Displacement and complementarity in the recorded music industry: evidence from France

Marc Ivaldi (), Ambre Nicolle, Frank Verboven and Jiekai Zhang ()
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Marc Ivaldi: TSE-R - Toulouse School of Economics - UT Capitole - Université Toulouse Capitole - UT - Université de Toulouse - EHESS - École des hautes études en sciences sociales - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement
Jiekai Zhang: Helsinki School of Economics

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Abstract: Do new digital consumption channels of music depress sales in old physical ones, or are they complementary? To answer this question, we exploit product-level variation in sales and prices of over 4 million products, observed weekly between 2014 and 2017 for the entire French market. A unique feature of our data is that we observe sales for both physical and digital products, as well as streaming consumption. At the track-level, we find that streaming displaces digital sales. At the more aggregate artist-level, digital sales displace physical sales, but streaming implies a promotional effect on physical sales. This complementarity is driven by popular genres, i.e., Pop and Variety. Most of our findings are robust to whether we consider the hits or include the products that belong to the long tail. Our findings bridge two streams of literature as we show that displacement between consumption channels at the product level can coexist with complementarity at a more aggregate level.

Keywords: Digitization; Music industry; Music consumption; Streaming (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024-03
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Published in Journal of Cultural Economics, 2024, vol. 48, p. 43-94. ⟨10.1007/s10824-023-09471-0⟩

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Journal Article: Displacement and complementarity in the recorded music industry: evidence from France (2024)
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DOI: 10.1007/s10824-023-09471-0

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