Analysis News Chartmetric’s new Make Music Equal report tracks gender representation across 1 million artists Chartmetric analyzes pronoun data on more than 1 million artists from 230 countries and territories
Analysis News Oasis streams surged 320% on Spotify globally after first reunion tour concerts in Cardiff Oasis stats roll in following first first Oasis Live '25 concerts in Cardiff
News US music publishing revenue jumped 13.4% to $7bn in 2024, outpacing the growth rate of recorded music Recovered unpaid royalties accounted for 27% of music publishing revenues last year, the NMPA's David Israelite said
Analysis News EU artists generated more than $1.8 billion on Spotify in 2024, up 15% YoY Spotify has published Loud & Clear stats for the EU
Analysis News Royalties generated by German artists on Spotify reached $520m in 2024, up 17% Germany is among the leading countries in Europe in the popularity of local-language music
News Sacem’s payouts to composers and publishers rose 12% to nearly $1.5bn in 2024 Sacem’s international revenues jumped 15% YoY, while domestic collections inched up 2% YoY
Analysis News Spotify posts record-high operating profit for Q1, as subscriber base grows by 5m to 268m paid users SPOT's latest financial results (for Q1 2025) were filed today (April 29)
Analysis News Latin Music’s US revenues hit $1.42 billion in 2024, up 5.8% YoY Latin Music revenues accounted for 8.1% of total recorded music revenue in the US last year
Analysis News Global recorded music revenues hit $29.6bn in 2024, up 4.8% YoY; users of paid music subscriptions reach 752m Mexico has overtaken Australia to become the World's tenth-largest recorded music market.
Analysis News YouTube Music hits 125 million subscribers, adding 2m subs per month on average over the past year YouTube added +25 million subscribers over the past 12 months
News Live Nation saw 151m fans attend its events in 2024, as revenue rose 3% to $23bn The live events and ticketing company is stepping up rollout of its own operated venues this year
Analysis News Spotify posts $1.5bn annual operating profit for 2024, as subscriber base grows to 263m in Q4 Spotify posted a quarterly operating income of over half a billion dollars
Analysis News Weverse hit 150m lifetime downloads, saw 19% user growth in 2024, as Ariana Grande, Dua Lipa join superfan platform '2024 was a transformative year for Weverse,' said Joon Choi, President of Weverse Company
Analysis News Germany generated nearly 20bn streams per month on average in 2024 The world's fourth-largest recorded music market generated 236 billion streams in 2024
News Becky G’s ‘POR EL CONTRARIO’ is Vevo’s most watched music video in 2024 with 313m global views “This year’s rankings reflect the continuing globalization of music, and 2024 was a year of firsts for genres like Country, Hip-Hop and Regional Mexican..."