News 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
News 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
Analysis News There are now over 200m tracks on audio streaming services. Nearly 100m of them aren’t played more than 10 times each year. MBW explains new stats revealed by market monitor and analysis platform Luminate today (January 15)
News While Grammys show goes on, BMG, Downtown, NMPA/Billboard, Friends ’N’ Family and others join in canceling events The California wildfires have caused a significant disruption to what is one of the music industry's most important networking and celebration weeks
News Beatchain and Radio City India to launch ‘Muzartdisco’ independent artist discovery platform Muzartdisco will be powered by Beatchain’s white-label technology
Analysis News ‘Middle class’ of artists growing larger, Luminate report finds, as 29,253 clocked between 1m and 10m on-demand audio streams in H1 The number of "mid-tier" artists grew by more than 5% in the past year, Luminate's Midyear Music Report says
News Luminate reaches music sales data collection deal with indie record stores The new arrangement defuses a controversy over how Luminate collects data on physical music sales at indie stores
Analysis News Taylor Swift’s music is streamed more in the US than the entire Jazz and Classical genres Swift claimed an audio stream market share of 1.28%; her market share including record sales was even bigger, at 1.79%
Analysis News 158 million tracks had 1,000 plays or fewer on music streaming services last year. 45 million had no plays at all. The number of tracks with no plays on audio streaming platforms jumped by 7.7 million over the past year, according to a new Luminate report
Analysis News Global on-demand audio streams reached the 4 trillion mark for the first time ever in a single year in 2023 Market monitor Luminate has published its Year-End report for 2023
News Luminate sticks to its guns over change in reporting that will impact physical music sales on Billboard charts Luminate is planning to retire its weighted modeling system of measuring physical album sales by the end of the year.
News Latin music superfans spend over 30% more on music-related activities than other music superfans in the US (report) US market monitor Luminate has published its new Latin Music Report
Analysis 15% of the general population in the US are ‘superfans.’ Here’s what that means for the music business. Recent stats published by US market monitor Luminate highlight the impact that superfans are having on the music business
Analysis News English language music’s popularity on streaming services is shrinking in the US… and globally. English language music is becoming statistically less popular on streaming services
Analysis News On-demand audio streams grew 13.5% to reach 616.5bn in the US in H1… and 5 other key stats from Luminate’s midyear report On-demand song streams (including audio and video streams) grew 15% YoY to 713.5bn in the US last year, while on-demand audio streams grew 13.5% to reach 616.5bn