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Saregama net profit triples year over year, bolstered by licensing revenue growth

Key Takeaways Music licensing revenue has grown to record heights, and is likely to keep growing, as it is directly proportionate to growth in adoption of digital music services and streaming video platforms that license music. However, revenue overall has yet to recover to pre-COVID levels. Carvaan device sales have bounced back since the pandemic, when their sales reduced due to store closures, and have grown 70% QoQ to 138,000 units being sold. Film releases have been muted during the pandemic, depressing at least one source of music revenue. Old and new music both contribute heftily to licensing revenue, with the two decades since the turn of the millennium accounting for 34% of income. An increase in royalties from music and sales in its Carvaan music players helped Saregama's net profit triple year-over-year to ₹31.6 crore, even as overall revenue (and spending) was still recovering from the hit of the COVID-19 pandemic. "Even on [a quarter-over-quarter] basis, Q3FY21’s consolidated turnover at ₹133.9 crores and profit before tax at ₹41.4 crore grew by 24% and 8% respectively," the company said in a press release. The company cited growing adoption of digital music consumption as a key revenue driver. Growing licensing: As always, licensing revenue is growing strongly on the back of increasing digital licensing from music and video streaming services, both curated and user-generated like Spotify, Netflix and YouTube. Music licensing, in particular, has not grown that much over the year due to a lack of new film music. [caption id="attachment_128176" align="aligncenter"…

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