The music in 2024 saw industry heavyweights moving with breakout stars, expanding the music scene in ways we hadn’t seen since the COVID-19 pandemic. Stabilized in a booming concert economy, streaming ...

More music, more listeners, no problems. The global music industry hit 4.8 trillion streams in 2024, a new single-year record, Luminate’s 2024 Year-End Report found. That’s up 14% from 2023, which ...

From top left to bottom right: Jamie xx (courtesy of Jamie xx), Peggy Gou (courtesy of Park Jongh Ha), Olan (courtesy of Meagan Rodriguez), Isoxo (courtesy of Isoxo) and Two Shell (courtesy of Two ...

(Diana Ramirez / De Los; Photos by Jordan Strauss / AP, Jill Connelly / For De Los, Univision, Streetmob Records.) For Latin music, 2024 was yet another year of significant expansion — both on the ...

Mars Salazar is an accomplished music journalist based in Austin, Texas. A proud native of the city, she earned her B.A. in Journalism from The University of Texas at Austin. Currently, she serves as ...

Streaming revenue now accounts for 60 percent of total revenue as of 2024, making it "bigger than the entire recorded music industry revenues for each year between 2003 and 2020," trade body IFPI ...

The company confirmed in a new report that it paid $5 billion to the independent music sector in 2024. By Ethan Millman Music Editor Spotify updated its annual Loud and Clear report on Wednesday, ...

For Latin music, 2024 was yet another year of significant expansion — both on the commercial front, and in the stylistic detours and avant-garde tendencies favored by artists across the Americas.