News Bad Bunny is Spotify’s most-streamed artist globally for 2025 with over 19.8bn streams Bad Bunny reclaims the title from Taylor Swift, who achieved 26.6bn+ streams globally on Spotify in 2024, and 26.1bn+ on the platform in 2023
News TuneCore has paid out over $5 billion to self-releasing artists to date TuneCore has paid out around $1 billion since June 2024, or about $59 million per month until November 2025.
Analysis News Spotify subscriber base grew by 5m to 281m in Q3; company posted $680m operating profit for the quarter Company's latest financial results (for Q3 2025) were filed this morning (November 4)
News YouTube ad revenues reached $10.3B in Q3 2025, up 15% YoY, as Shorts ‘now earn more revenue per watch hour’ than long-form content in the US YouTube Shorts 'now earn more revenue per watch hour' than traditional YouTube videos, the company says
Analysis News US Latin music revenues neared $500m in H1 2025, growing 6X faster than overall US market Revenue growth for Latin music was six times as fast as it was for recorded music overall
News Taylor Swift’s ‘The Life of a Showgirl’ shatters US sales records, dominates singles chart The record sold over 3.4 million copies in its first week in the US alone, with final consumption figures at 4.002 million equivalent album units, Billboard reports
News Taylor Swift’s ‘The Life of a Showgirl’ is already a record breaker, as album becomes first to surpass 5m pre-saves on Spotify Spotify is celebrating the album’s release with a three-day pop-up event in New York City from September 30 through October 2.
News Zach Bryan just played the biggest ticketed show in US history – including $5m in merch sales 112,408 fans watched country singer Zach Bryan perform on Saturday (September 27)
News 1 in 3 chart-topping hits in Germany last year went viral on TikTok first, platform says TikTok is boasting that “the path to many chart successes begins" on its platform
News The Weeknd’s ‘Blinding Lights’ becomes first song to hit 5bn streams on Spotify The latest achievement coincides with the track topping Billboard's Top Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs of the 21st Century chart
Analysis News JYP Entertainment profit soars in Q2, helped by Stray Kids tour, Kpop Demon Hunters The Korean music company's blockbuster earnings even got a little help from ‘Kpop Demon Hunters’
News ‘Super listeners’ make up just 2% of an artist’s monthly streaming audience, yet buy 50% of concert tickets, Spotify says Spotify may have just identified the 'super-superfans' who truly drive an artist's career
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