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.

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 ...

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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 ...

Data firm Luminate’s music streaming data shows where the industry is headed in 2025—from 2024’s big year for pop to growth in international subscribers. [Photo: Unique Nicole/WireImage/Getty Images; ...

Popular music's favorite country performer is embracing rock and roll. That's the most substantial take from Grammy-nominated and 19-time Billboard Music Award-winning artist Morgan Wallen's surprise ...

It was hard to narrow our favorite Seattle-area music list to 10 entries—a nice problem to have. Somehow, though, we managed. Below are the 2024 albums that provided surplus pleasure this year… and ...

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 ...

Spotify hit all the right notes in reporting Q4 and full-year 2024 earnings, with the audio streamer turning in its first annual net profit since it was founded in 2006. Shares of Spotify surged more ...