The IFPI has crowned K-Pop stars BTS as the top artist of 2021, making them the first act to win the award two years in a row.

Spotify records are falling like dominoes this week. Jungkook from BTS has set a new milestone on the streaming service.

Taylor Swift was the biggest artist of 2023. Miley Cyrus had the biggest single. Now K-Pop group Seventeen are the third big winner.

Warner Music Group's latest deal in China is a distribution agreement with artist, producer and actor Lay Zhang.

The biggest music track globally in 2022 was Harry Styles' 'As It Was' with 2.28bn 'global subscription stream equivalents'.

Music Ally has reported extensively on the hearings at the British parliament’s inquiry into the economics of music streaming.

Did you know that the top 500 artists on Spotify last year generated around $1.85bn in royalties from the streaming service - 37% of its overall payouts?

Opulous, the web3 offshoot from distributor Ditto Music, has been talking about its plans to launch music NFTs since 2021.

Hot on the heels of crowning Taylor Swift as the biggest global artist of 2023, today the IFPI has published its chart of the top singles.

Spotify is testing a new feature that will enable artists and labels to boost specific tracks in the recommendation algorithms.

June is Pride Month, and Apple is celebrating with its latest musical partnership. The company has enlisted Madonna.

As consumption data and revenue figures emerge for the music industry's 2020, we'll get a fuller picture of the Covid-19 pandemic's impact. Early out of the blocks, as usual, is British industry body...

Spotify has a huge catalogue of licensed music, is one of the biggest podcast distribution platforms, and has its own tool (Anchor) for creating podcasts.

The tale of 2021 for the recorded music industry in a nutshell? Absolute stonks. Global recorded music revenues grew by 18.5% to $25.9bn.

“Q4 is product time. Let's make history,” tweeted Opulous, the web3 spin-off from distributor Ditto Music, yesterday.

Ed Sheeran's 'Shape of You' is the most-streamed track of all-time on Apple Music, with more than 930m streams.

This week has seen coverage of Britney Spears' claim (in a since-deleted Instagram post) she "will never return to the music industry!!!".

Music distributor AWAL says that "hundreds" of its artists now earn more than $100k a year from streaming, and dozens earn more than $1m.

Music streaming service Napster had its latest change of ownership in May, when it was acquired by web3 companies Hivemind and Algorand.

Analytics firm Viberate has been digging into the Netflix bump for artist and actor Sofia Carson, star of Purple Hearts.

Universal Music Group in China has a new signing: Sunnee (杨芸晴) from girl group Rocket Girls 101 (火箭少女101) who split up earlier this week.

Spotify has announced a round of layoffs as part of what CEO Daniel Ek called an effort "to bring our costs more in line".

Music Ally has learned a new word this morning: 'sliving' is apparently "a playful mashup of slaying and living your best life".

In July we reported on US Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib's plans to push for the creation of a new streaming royalty paid directly to artists.

Here is Music Ally's handy primer on the best sources of data on the music market: industry stats, surveys, forecasts and more.

This week should be the annual Midem music industry conference in Cannes, but due to Covid-19 the event will be online-only.

As lockdown took hold, major labels released 1.2m songs in 2020; DIY artists released a staggering 9.5m. That’s an 8 to 1 ratio of artists doing it themselves to labels doing it for them

Ninja Tune/Counter Records act The Midnight have a new single out called ‘Prom Night’ and have created a special prom-themed playlist generator for it. 

The trickle of companies launching music that game streamers can use in their broadcasts and on-demand videos without fear of copyright strikes is turning into a flood.

The Middle East and North Africa is one of the ‘high potential’ regions being eyed eagerly by the global music industry.

Universal Music Group has signed a partnership with AI-music startup Endel, to create mood-music soundscapes with its artists.

Infamous filesharing brand LimeWire re-emerged in 2022 as a music NFTs marketplace, going on to raise $10.4m in a token sale.

If you're a prominent music company in India, chances are at least one global major label is kicking the tyres of your business.

Last week, Crispin Hunt stepped down as chair of UK songwriters body The Ivors Academy. His replacement is Broken Record founder Tom Gray.

Spotify is firmly in the sights of a new artist-focused campaign launched by the Union of Musicians and Allied Workers (UMAW) in the US.

Moment House is the livestreaming startup that launched in October 2020 with the likes of Scooter Braun, Troy Carter and Patreon CEO Jack Conte as investors.

One of the talking points at the recent UK inquiry into music streaming economics was whether more labels should write off unrecouped balances.

A prominent US politician has announced plans to push for the creation of a new streaming royalty to be paid directly to artists.

Troy Carter was the closing keynote at Music Ally and Music Biz's NY:LON Connect conference in New York on Friday, and sparked a lot of debate.

Spotify launched its Fresh Finds family of playlists in 2016, using data from music blogs and tastemakers' listening on its own service.

We're publishing a daily roundup in December. Today’s focuses on the fights for artists’ rights (and higher royalties) in the streaming era.

All three major labels and a group of independents to launch the 'Music Climate Pact', which will sign companies up to various commitments to reduce their climate impact.

The Music Business Academy for Africa is a joint venture between Music Ally and iManage Africa, working with Godwin Tom to empower the next generation of executives there.

Spotify has filed a patent for a feature that would allow users to create “video moments” with accompanying music within the Spotify app

Will Page, the former chief economist at Spotify and PRS for Music, has published a new study of 'Twitch's Rockonomics' that includes case studies.