Chartmetric 2025 Data Shows Artists Are Surging Faster Than Ever
Average number of days required for songs to reach 1 billion streams on Spotify, 2015-2025 (Source: Chartmetric)Hit songs are happening ...
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From YouTube pulling its data from Billboard’s charts to HYBE’s new partnership with Tyla’s managers… it’s MBW’s weekly round-up
Welcome to Music Business Worldwide’s Weekly Round-up – where we make sure you caught the five biggest stories to hit ...
Billboard just made ‘free’ streams worth more on its US charts. YouTube is still not happy – and is pulling its data.
YouTube says it will soon stop providing data to Billboard for inclusion in the US charts, ending a partnership that ...
AI Music Companies Urgently Need Accurate Music Rights Data
In the wake of groundbreaking AI music deals recently announced, Music Reports has an urgent message for the music industry. ...
Rewind and Record: DNA Cassettes Offer Solution to Data Storage Crisis
Remember cassette tapes? Those beautifully analogue rectangles of magnetic wonder that soundtracked the 80s and 90s, eternally vulnerable to being ...
Luminate partners with Tencent Music to add sales metrics from China to its global data set for the first time
Billboard‘s Global Charts will soon include music consumption numbers from the Chinese market for the first time.Entertainment industry research firm ...
Major music publishers ink AI licensing deals with lyrics and music data company Musixmatch
Lyrics and music data company Musixmatch says it has signed AI licensing deals with the publishing arms of all three ...
Top European music lawyer dismisses UMG/Downtown data concerns as ‘fantasy or paranoia’
One of France’s top music industry lawyers has dismissed concerns over Universal Music Group‘s access to independent label data through ...
DMN Pro Weekly: Just Five Streaming Music Platforms Account for 99% of All US-Based Subscribers, First-Half 2025 Data Reveals
The streaming music market is becoming increasingly concentrated, with just five streaming music giants now controlling nearly the entire US-based ...
Billions Lost to Bad Data — It’s About Time You ‘Know Your Artists’
Barnett Klane, VP of Product at Trolley, hashing it out with team members (Photo: Trolley)If you’re managing a music catalog, ...
