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bermudagold · Post by **bermudagold** » Sun Jan 25, 2026 4:55 pm

Highlights
1. Paid streaming has increased from last year
2. Half of all "premium" paid music streams globally still take place in just 4 countries (USA, mexico, brazil, germany)
3. Biggest increase in paid streaming outside USA is mexico brazil, and india
4. RnB/Hip Hop still most streamed in aggregate despite not topping charts for first time in 30 yrs
5. Rock is fastest growing genre in streaming followed by Christian/gospel
6. The vast majority of people who spend money on physical media, merch, and live shows are people who pay for streaming (76%)
7. Album consumption and physical media sales are up slightly mostly driven by vinyl
8. Wide, shallow marketing and reach is less impactful than narrow and deep. Daft Punk streams increased 48% after debuting in video game fortnite
9. Majority of listeners are either very comfortable, comfortable, or indifferent to consuming AI generated music. Only 44% say they would be less interested in listening to music if know it is AI
10. Half of the music uploaded to streaming platforms received less than 10 streams last year

https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/ ... st-report/

BONES · Post by **BONES** » Mon Jan 26, 2026 12:01 am

"Luminate equates 1,250 paid subscription streams, or 3,750 ad-supported streams, to one album 'sale'. "
Well that's a f**king joke because we make a ten times more than that from one digital album sale, let alone a CD. 1250 Spotify streams is worth about 0.15 Euro cents to the artist. To be clear that is 0.0015 Euros.

bermudagold · Post by **bermudagold** » Mon Jan 26, 2026 12:57 am

BONES wrote: Mon Jan 26, 2026 12:01 am "Luminate equates 1,250 paid subscription streams, or 3,750 ad-supported streams, to one album 'sale'. "
Well that's a f**king joke because we make a ten times more than that from one digital album sale, let alone a CD. 1250 Spotify streams is worth about 0.15 Euro cents to the artist. To be clear that is 0.0015 Euros.

the new metrics are indeed wild...the benchmark for success used to be a gold album at half a million physical sales...that's 1.8 BILLION streams...who does that nowadays?...by these metrics even drake didn't go platinum last year...new world

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