Qobuz Delivers 45.7% Revenue Growth in 2025 in a Paid Music Streaming Market Growing at 8.8% — Qobuz Community
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Paris, Tuesday 16 June 2026 – Qobuz, the independently owned, high-quality music streaming and download platform, has reported revenue growth of +45.7% in 2025 - significantly outperforming the global paid streaming market, which grew at +8.8% over the same period.

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.

  • abc@suppo.fiEnglish
    91·
    12 days ago

    Disclaimer: I mostly agree with Daniel Ek’s political stances and I’m especially a big fan of him putting significant capital into defence industry. And I like that Spotify is from Sweden and is still mostly owned by swedes. Just to say that the following is not politically motivated.

    I just switched over to Qobuz because I got fed up with Spotify’s convoluted UI due to it trying to cram in podcasts and audiobooks in there in addition to just music.

    It’s pretty cool. The QBZ client from Flatpak can output bit perfect audio to my DAC with just a few tweaks that the client itself helpfully guides through. QBZ UX is way better than Spotify for mindful listening: it guides towards listening to whole albums instead of badly created mixes.

    I tested sound quality with Michael Jackson’s Smooth Criminal. Was way better on Qobuz for reasons that probably have more to do with mastering than actual sound quality of the client. Because, you know, human ears just don’t.

    I missed one album so far: Benedictum’s Uncreation isn’t there, but it is in Spotify. Oh well.

    • RidderSport@feddit.orgEnglish
      7·
      11 days ago

      Likewise the political views of Spotify’s CEO are not too problematic for me - those I know of. Defense spending is sadly necessary, at least the money stays in the EU.

      What made me switch was that ICE was allowed to play recruitment ads. Granted as a premium user, I would never hear them, but it is the principal.

      What made me stay was the quality of the streams. The difference in depth can easily heard, espescially on good stereo speakers or on headphones. The focus on albums, I’ve grown to like. I still do miss Spotify’s weekly playlist. Qobuz’ just isn’t as good, it only reflects your recent streams. However that is made up by the curated playlists. I’ve found so many artitsts I’ve never heard of. It’s like music radio shows used to be like.

      Edit: however the qbz app does drain a lot of power