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Why Streaming Stats Don’t Define You as an Artist

It’s Raining Men – Statistics about The Gender Gap in Music

Gender is only known for about half of individual artists of the Musicbrainz database. Among those with known gender, women represent only 11.6% of “non-group” artists (still that’s 141,318 people).

Indian Music Industry Analysis

The Indian market is one of the hottest topics in the industry right now. The news of Spotify and Youtube Music entering the local market, the price war that followed — as we already mentioned, India will probably become the main battleground of the global streaming industry in the years to come.

Music Market Focus: Sizing Up the US Music Industry

The U.S. music market is not only the largest market in the world. The influence of the U.S. spreads far beyond the country’s borders, securing its place as a trendsetter of the global music industry. As of March 2019, over 70% of the songs on Spotify’s Global Top-50 playlist were recorded by US-based artists.

GENERAL MUSIC INDUSTRY STATISTICS

RESEARCH

The U.S. is the top music market in 2021, followed by Japan, the U.K., and Germany.

Independent record labels accounted for 31.4% of the world’s streaming and physical music sales revenue in 2020.

Sony Music Entertainment earned 20.6% of the global revenue earned from streaming and physical music sales in 2020.

Sony Music Entertainment earned 20.6% of the global revenue earned from streaming and physical music sales in 2020.

Spotify holds 31% of the total subscribers of the music streaming market, the largest portion of any streaming service.

The global music industry’s revenue increased from $45.5 billion in 2012 to an estimated $59.48 billion in 2020.

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