News There are 8bn user-curated playlists on Spotify, 725m created this year alone, Daniel Ek saysThe streaming service has been working to make playlisting a more attractive feature for its subscribers
Analysis News Amapiano streams exploded by 5,668% on Spotify between 2018 and 2023Spotify credits pandemic lockdowns for the sudden success of this South African musical genre
Analysis News TuneCore has paid out over $4 billion to self-releasing artists to dateTuneCore has paid out around $1 billion since December 2022
Analysis News PRS for Music paid out a record $1.2bn to songwriters, composers and music publishers last yearTotal royalty distributions increased by 12.8% YoY
Analysis News Olivia Rodrigo’s ‘Sour’ is the most streamed album by any female artist ever on Spotify (yes, including Taylor Swift)Olivia Rodrigo’s debut album continues to smash records three years after its release
Analysis News Streams of Kendrick Lamar’s Not Like Us and Euphoria are still soaring on Spotify… and the tracks have been blowing up on other platforms too.Not Like Us reached No.1 on the Billboard Hot 100 this week
Analysis News Universal Music Group generated $2.8 billion in Q1 – up 7.9% YoYUMG, which trades on the Euronext stock exchange in Amsterdam, has published its Q1 results (for the three months to end of March)
Analysis News Latin music generated $1.4 billion in US recorded music revenues last year – up 16% YoYThe RIAA has published its Year-end Latin Music Report
Analysis News Epidemic Sound’s royalty-free music is played 2.5bn times per day on YouTube and TikTok, but company still struggles to turn a profitThe company says there are now 26 million videos on YouTube and TikTok featuring its music
Analysis News Amapiano and Afrobeats videos saw nearly 4 billion global views on Vevo in 2023Music video network Vevo recorded a 56% YoY increase in viewership of Afrobeats and Amapiano videos globally in 2023
Analysis News The MLC has distributed over $2bn to songwriters and publishers since 2021Nashville-headquartered organization just reached a significant milestone
Analysis News This d4vd track recorded on BandLab’s free app just surpassed 1 billion streams on SpotifyTrack has been streamed over 43.3 million times on Spotify in the past month
Analysis Over 38% of music on TikTok is ‘modified’, says study that analyzed 100 million audio tracks on the platformEither pitch or speed of these tracks were altered, according to Pex data
Analysis Only 19% of artists on Spotify had over 1,000 monthly listeners in 2023As MBW has previously pointed out, there will be a minimum number of unique listeners required for a track to become eligible for royalty payouts on Spotify this year
Analysis News Spotify added 10m subscribers in Q4 2023, taking its total global paying subs audience to 236mSpotify's total number of Monthly Active Users grew 23% YoY to 602 million at the end of Q4 2023