News Dua Lipa was the most played artist across radio, TV and public places in the UK last year Taylor Swift maintained her spot at No. 2 for the second straight year, while Sheeran fell to third place
News Lady Gaga tops 123m monthly listeners on Spotify, breaking record for largest monthly audience achieved by a female artist on the platform With 123.7 million monthly listeners, Lady Gaga now sits behind only Bruno Mars and The Weeknd in Spotify’s overall rankings
News Spotify nabs 48-hour exclusive for The Weeknd ‘Billions Club’ concert film Spotify has also made social media-style comments available for the film
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..."
News Taylor Swift claims title of Spotify’s most-streamed artist for second straight year, with more than 26.6bn streams in 2024 Taylor Swift, The Weeknd, Bad Bunny, Drake and Billie Eilish have topped Spotify's most-streamed artists list for 2024
News Billie Eilish overtakes The Weeknd as Spotify’s most popular artist Eilish garnered 100.1 million monthly listeners compared to The Weeknd's 99.8 million
News The Weeknd’s ‘Blinding Lights’ becomes first song to cross 4 billion Spotify streams The track has also topped Chubby Checker’s The Twist as the No. 1 Billboard Hot 100 hit of all time
News The Weeknd-backed personalized song creation startup Songfinch raises $17m in Series A round Latest round brings the company’s total funding to-date to $21.8 million
News The Weeknd signs publishing pact with Universal – and he’s thrown new recordings and merch into the package too The Weeknd has sold more than 75 million albums.
News The Weeknd wins IFPI Global Digital Single Award for Save Your Tears Award is presented to the world’s best-selling single of the year across all digital formats
News Warner Chappell Music extends publishing deal with The Weeknd songwriter Belly Warner Chappell has acquired 50% of Belly’s songwriting catalog as part of the deal.
Analysis News Global Spotify chart streams rose 3% last week – but fell again in the United States Deezer says there's reason to be hopeful – and we need to wait things out
News The Weeknd enjoys major debut on Spotify with new album, racking up over 59m chart streams in a day Drake's Scorpion remains the record-holder for day one global streams with more than 132m
News Confirmed: The Weeknd’s After Hours surpassed a million pre-adds on Apple Music ahead of release "Let the music heal us during these dark times."
News The Weeknd smashes Apple Music record, heading towards 1m global pre-adds of new album After Hours already has 975,000 pre-adds – Apple's digital equivalent of traditional pre-orders