Luminate In The News

Spotify to launch ‘Music Pro’ service with superfan perks like early-access tickets and AI remix tool… for up to $5.99 more per month (report)

Spotify's long-touted $18 per month superfan tier could be launched this year

TikTok: 84% of songs that entered Billboard’s Global 200 chart in 2024 went viral on our platform first

TikTok users are much likelier to be superfans than the general population, research from TikTok and Luminate has found

Warner has a new deal with Amazon Music… and 4 other things we learned from Robert Kyncl on WMG’s latest earnings call

WMG's leadership team conducted the company's calendar Q4 earnings call on February 6. MBW listened in, here's what stood out...

K-Pop in crisis? Around 93m albums were sold in South Korea in 2024 – 23m fewer than in 2023

New data shows that, even as K-Pop gets bigger in the US, album sales declines in its home country in 2024

TuneCore says that tracks within its ‘Accelerator’ platform clocked 21bn streams in 2024, as number of artists on the program nears 450,000

"Artists across all genres are seeing their stream numbers skyrocket," TuneCore says in its latest report on the Accelerator program

Read Sir Lucian Grainge’s 2025 memo to Universal Music Group staff: ‘Streaming 2.0 will represent a new age of innovation, consumer segmentation, geographic expansion, greater consumer value and ARPU growth.’

UMG boss says: "I’m pleased to report that the Streaming 2.0 era has arrived."

Splice, which hit nearly 350m downloads in 2024, reveals the fastest-growing genres on its platform

Splice was valued at nearly USD $500 million in 2021 after securing $55 million in funding

Global audio streams jumped 14% in 2024 to 4.8 trillion – with pop music the fastest-growing genre in the US

Market research firm Luminate named Taylor Swift the top artist of 2024, as well as the top songwriter