Fellow stat-nerds, assemble! Luminate’s mid-year report is out, with all manner of figures on music (not to mention TV and film) in the first half of 2026.
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Gen-Z are outspending millennials on live music in the US
Luminate’s latest data-drop focuses on live music, and specifically on spending patterns in the US.
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Luminate data: US market diversifying away from domestic and Anglophone music
The US has always, understandably, been a domestic-centric market – but it’s now at a “vibrant international crossroads”, a new Luminate report says. While two thirds of on-demand audio streams are […]
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Next-gen music culture: key shifts, scenes and genres in 2026
We are gearing up for the Music Ally NEXT conference on 18 June in London, and one of its strands will focus on ‘next-gen music culture’.
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Luminate digs into music superfans’ demographic differences
Does age matter? It may do when it comes to music superfans, according to research firm Luminate. Its latest study explores some of the differences in fandom for various demographics, and makes […]
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BTS ‘Arirang’ album was streamed 739.1m times in first week
You don’t need us to tell you that the BTS comeback album ‘Arirang’ was a hit in its first week. But you might need Luminate’s number-crunchers to tell you exactly […]
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US music-market trends in 2025: ‘America streams American…’
Music-industry economist Will Page’s world tour continues: he appeared at the recent Vanderbilt Music Law Summit in Nashville with a presentation on ‘The Global (and American) Value of Music Copyright’. […]
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Instagram sets out its stall as a ‘music superfandom’ platform
“Music superfans are on Instagram,” is one of the lead takeaways in a new report commissioned by Instagram from Luminate.
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5.1tn annual music streams… but 120.5m tracks had 10 or fewer
Music-biz number-cruncher Luminate has published its year-end report for 2025, with plenty of stats for the industry to chew over. We’ll start with the biggest: 2025 saw 5.1 trillion on-demand audio […]
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All the India-specific data in Luminate’s 2025 Year-End Music Report
India’s total on-demand audio and video streams grew by 8% from 235.5b in the first half of 2025 to 254.4b in the second half. We calculated those figures based on […]
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Luminate: ‘The Weeknd’s catalog is a safe billion-dollar bet’
The Weekend signed a rumoured-$1bn deal with investment firm Lyric Capital late last year backed by his publishing and recording rights.
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Luminate hails a ‘late-year boost’ for music streams in the US
Autumn used to be a slow time for US music streams according to Luminate. Not this year though. “Q3 year-over-year domestic streaming growth has outpaced both Q1 and Q2, providing […]
