We heard last week that South Korea has now become the third biggest music-exporter in the world, overtaking Canada. Now we’ve got some new figures behind that.
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Global on-demand music streams up 9.8% in first half of 2026
Fellow stat-nerds, assemble! Luminate’s mid-year report is out, with all manner of figures on music (not to mention TV and film) in the first half of 2026.
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Report predicts $56.8bn of annual recorded-music sales by 2030
Research firm Omdia has published its latest predictions for the growth of the global recorded-music market.
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UK music-tourism spending saw double-digit growth in 2025
The big stars were out in force touring the UK last year, and the country’s music-tourism revenues spiked accordingly – something quantified in the latest report by industry body UK Music. […]
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Gen-Z are outspending millennials on live music in the US
Luminate’s latest data-drop focuses on live music, and specifically on spending patterns in the US.
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Multiples ‘have stabilised around 12-17x on iconic catalogues’
What’s been happening to the music catalogue-sales market in the last couple of years? Philippe Astor has been crunching the numbers.
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69% of Spotify streams in the US go to American artists
The US is the biggest recorded-music market in the world, and it’s one where domestic artists are taking a big share of streams according to Spotify. “69% of all streams […]
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Report: There are now more than 400m Gen-Z fans of esports
It’s been a little while since we checked in on the esports market, but y’know who’s checking in regularly on professional gaming tournaments? Gen-Z, that’s who. At least, that’s a […]
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Country Profile – Poland 2026
Poland’s music industry is in rude health – although exports remain problematic.
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Music Ally Insight Report :: International Focus 2026
Welcome to our sixth annual Music Ally International Focus report – where we bring all of Music Ally’s Country Profiles published in the last 12 months into one place.
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Spotify report sets out its impact for French-language music
France is one of the countries where Spotify has tangled with policymakers who want it to do more to support local music.
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Competition to ChatGPT in AI-assistants market is heating up
OpenAI’s ChatGPT became the fastest mobile app ever to reach one billion monthly active users in May this year.
