Half a million people now pay for a streaming music subscription in France, with streaming now accounting for more than a third of digital music revenues in the country.

That’s according to local industry body SNEP, which in a report published at the end of last month says that makes France the second biggest streaming market in Europe, behind Sweden.

While SNEP’s figures also suggest that digital sales seeing a 5% increase from 2011 to 2012 to 25%, overall music ...