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; ...

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 ...

This was such an exciting year in music, and as you can see from my list, an especially exciting year for women in music yet again. They dominated the pop, country, and rap charts, just to name a few.

Country music has been on a steady rise for the past several years, but in 2024, the genre soared to heights that would have been unimaginable less than a decade ago. For starters, strict definitions ...

However, you listened to music this year, streaming on an app or the old fashioned way on the radio, 2024 was a year that saw breakthrough artists, chart topping hits and a return of some top tier ...

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 ...

With so many constant releases in Latin music, it can sometimes feel hard to keep up — but lots of songs rose from the din and stood out this year. Some of the best ones were new inventions (take, for ...