Now hear this: Sales of recorded music in the U.S. grew for the eighth consecutive year in 2023, with streams accounting for a dominant 84% and vinyl up by double digits again, the RIAA said in its ...

A traditional measure of record labels covers sales, streaming, synch and performances. But today's labels do far more. By Glenn Peoples The IFPI’s annual figure for global recorded music revenue, ...

The year saw K-pop companies making mega moves on a global scale, while the catalog market remained hot. By Glenn Peoples K-pop’s growth has reshaped the music business and given financial fuel to ...

Let’s get this out of the way: Taylor Swift dominated the year in music, and it wasn’t even close. Four-year-old songs of hers topped the charts. She sold physical albums at a head-spinning rate. Her ...

“Everything is under control,” Meshell Ndegeocello sings, again and again, throughout “Call the Tune,” a haunted hymn amidst the collection of mystical prayers, jazz vamps, and folk musings that ...

There are years when there are major tours. And then there was 2023. Taylor Swift, Beyoncé, Pink and Ed Sheeran stormed stadiums. Are you exhausted? We're exhausted. But in a totally exhilarating way.

While 2022 may have been a year completely dominated by a certain sad summer reggaeton album, 2023 drew its power from a set of familiar sounds that took on new prominence: tubas, accordions and a ...

Taylor Swift made up 1.7% of the entire U.S. recorded-music market in 2023, according to the year-end report from Luminate, the industry data partner formerly known as SoundScan. The news does not ...

The IFPI Global Music Report has long been viewed as the definitive snapshot of the international music industry’s health (or otherwise). After all, the global recorded music industry trade body’s ...