Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Female artists took over the charts in 2024, and in 2025 they continued their winning ways — and added a new star to their lineup.

The first of the important year-end music industry data reports have come out for 2025, from Luminate Data and Chartmetric. Luminate’s report confirms that growth in music streaming in the U.S. is ...

Thanks in large part to 7% paid streaming growth, the US music industry generated all-time-high recorded revenue of $11.54 billion during 2025. However, both ad-supported and paid non-Premium ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The global music industry hit 5.1 trillion streams in 2025. It’s a new single-year record, up 9.6% from 2024, which held the previous record. That’s according to a 2025 Year-End Report ...

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Taylor Swift is at the top of the IFPI Global Artist Chart for a fourth year in a row. The singer-songwriter has been named Biggest-Selling Global Artist of the Year 2025, an award recognizing her ...

UMG reported $10.9 billion in recorded revenues for the year, alongside $2.6 billion in music publishing revenue. By Ethan Millman Music Editor Universal Music Group shared its fourth quarter and full ...

It’s that time of the year again: when swathes of electronic-music execs hop on planes to the IMS Ibiza conference, and when the tie-in ‘IMS Electronic Music Business Report i ...