Tootfinder

Oh, I just discovered #music

So.... Rockin' in the USA (Update: Rockin' in the Free World), seemingly Cheato's favorite tune to steal, is now owned by Greenland.
Update: He is not giving the copyrights to Greenland, he is giving free access to the tunes to people in Greenland.
"Neil Young Trashes Amazon, Gives His Complete Musical Catalog to Greenland for Free"

Neil Young Trashes Amazon, Gives His Complete Musical Catalog to Greenland for Free
Neil Young has escalated his way against Amazon due to Jeff Bezos' support of Trump, and is giving his music to the people of Greenland.

Google says AI music generation platform ProducerAI is joining Labs and will be powered by a Lyria 3 preview version; ProducerAI was developed alongside artists (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/883307/google-producerai-deal-music

This Chainsmokers-approved AI music producer is joining Google
The AI-powered music-making platform ProducerAI is joining Google. As part of the deal, ProducerAI will use Google’s Lyria AI model.

Soundfonts (SF2) for chipmusic, chiptune and retro games.
#chiptune

Google says AI music generation platform ProducerAI is joining Labs and will be powered by a Lyria 3 preview version; ProducerAI was developed alongside artists (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/883307/google-producerai-deal-music

This Chainsmokers-approved AI music producer is joining Google
The AI-powered music-making platform ProducerAI is joining Google. As part of the deal, ProducerAI will use Google’s Lyria AI model.

#MondayCovers
Chocolate Disco [LIVE BAND DANCE COVER] feat. Electronicole // J-MUSIC Ensemble

• YouTube
• YouTube Music

Next great house cleaning album, the roots rock classic, By The Light of the Moon from Los Lobos.
#music
https://music.apple.com/us/album/by-the-light-of-the-moon/30…

DROM X GODSPEED MUSIC SERIES 2026 — #GodspeedBrewery #DromTaberna — the plot thickens… 242 Coxwell Avenue #jazzintoronto
https://www.godspeedbrewery.com/events-1/2026/1/28/drom-x-godspeed-music-series

Legendary composer Èliane Radigue died this past week at the age of 94. She was a pioneer of electronic music and many of her compositions expressed her Buddhist practice in their spacious and slow moving sonic fields.
A few years ago I was asked by my friend Audra Wolowiec to respond to Radigue’s beautiful ambient work, L’Îsle Re-Sonante, for Sound American.
#music

The Resonant Island
Writing with the composition L'Îsle Resonante by the legendary Éliane Radigue who died this week at the age of 94.

On his 84th birthday this past Saturday,
#Bob #Dylan played a show in keeping with his still-serious touring schedule,
but also his apparently irrepressible instinct to work:
on music,
on writing,
on painting,
on sculpture

How Bob Dylan Kept Reinventing His Songwriting Process, Breathing New Life Into His Music
On his 84th birthday this past Saturday, Bob Dylan played a show. That was in keeping with not only his still-serious touring schedule, but also his apparently irrepressible instinct to work: on music, on writing, on painting, on sculpture.

Beautiful article on #GNU #LilyPond "Lilypond Music-Notation Software in the Digital-Humanities Toolbox" -- Andrew A. Cashner
https://

Merry Christmas everyone! 🎅
#music #Christmas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFnOWzP7PDs

I have them several tries but I'm not getting on the Geese bandwagon. They are not for me.
#music

we're driving thru some states on a road trip to grandparents and my older bro is playing bulgarian choir music or some shit and this is the most epic gas station stop of all time

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/arts/music/k-pop-newjeans-katseye-kpop-demon-hunters.html?unlocked_article_code=1._U8.dmrD.KT74-Bj1GOq5&smid=url-share

K-Pop in 2025: What ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ and NewJeans Tell Us About the Genre
The genre peaked in terms of global awareness with “KPop Demon Hunters,” while the industry’s most promising new act was mired in a legal morass.

♫ Top 5 artists of the Last.week: The Mars Volta (74) Los Angeles Negros (27) Robert Plant (27) Fiona Apple (23) Florence the Machine (22). #myweekcounted 559 Scrobbles with Lastfm #music via @…

Yesterday I was in the MUJI store in downtown Toronto (there's no MUJI in Montreal/Quebec).
We really couldn't figure out the music. They were playing a 15-20 minute repeating loop of traditional Scottish music. It was so out of place.
Only later that afternoon—long after leaving with my fresh pens and yuzu candy—upon seeing a poster in a pub, advertising a special meal of haggis, did I realize that it was Robbie Burns Day, and it must've been a staffer that hijacked …

#music #oyasumi
Melokind
yt-dlp --format bestaudio --embed-metadata 'https://soundcloud.com/melokind'

🎸 I was about to name an anime theme cover band "Absolute Territory" but we realized neither the lead guitarist or manager/mascot (e.g.🦊) could get away with it
#anime #music #culture

very excited for @marisamusic.bsky.social's "anthology of unamerican folk music" https://marisaanderson.bandcamp.com/album/the-anthology-of-unamerican-folk-music

Sweet. Almost 30 minutes of Angine de Poitrine. #music

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#EssentialClassics
- The ideal mix of classical music
Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with discoveries and surprises rubbing shoulders with familiar favourites.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002rfjv

i can't even remember hearing this before!
not impossible i suppose. Xmal Deutschland
#music
https://xmaldeutschland.bandcamp.com/track/allein

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Illnoledge:
🎵 OBIA
#Illnoledge
https://illnoledge-music.bandcamp.com/track/obia
https://open.spotify.com/track/5WyyPzEmOHUXeeU6MaY7u7

Some #punk bands lose peeps when they move from being non-political to political.
But I think a far larger issue is when they move from playing 1 minute songs to 3 minute songs.
#music

Sprint

• YouTube
• Spotify
• Apple Music

#Concert and #message: "War is not the answer" - Bella ciao
Young@Heart Presents 10-Alarm Fire: We Won't Shut Up!
#Music

lastfm: last.fm listening habits (2007)
Two bipartite networks from the music website last.fm, giving the user-song and user-band interactions. Nodes are users and songs/bands, and an edge (i,j) denotes that a user i listens to the song/band j.
This network has 175069 nodes and 19150868 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
https://

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Apparat:
🎵 An Echo Skips A Name (alternate take)
#NowPlaying #Apparat
https://apparat-music.bandcamp.com/track/an-echo-skips-a-name-alternate-take-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/6jJZkZvEQFAVAhZXxCupLE

Mogul, founded by ex-SoundCloud execs to help artists track royalties, raised $5M and says it has helped track $1.5B in lost royalties since 2025 (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/24/mogul-tracked-1-5-billion-music-royalties…

Mogul says it has tracked $1.5B in music royalties, raised $5M in funding | TechCrunch
Mogul, which helps artists track royalties and value their catalogs, raised $5 million in a round led by the Yamaha Music Innovations Fund.

Oh wow Beethoven made classical music about the open-source systems monitoring and alerting toolkit 😮

And what if feedback entered popular music because no one in the band could play the flute?

“We have archived around 86 million songs from Spotify, ordering by popularity descending. While this only represents 37% of songs, it represents around 99.6% of listens”
https://annas-archive.org/blog/backing-up-spotify.html

Backing up Spotify
We backed up Spotify (metadata and music files). It’s distributed in bulk torrents (~300TB). It’s the world’s first “preservation archive” for music which is fully open (meaning it can easily be mirrored by anyone with enough disk space), with 86 million music files, representing around 99.6% of listens.

If you play country music non-stop while shopping in your store or a guest of your restaurant/facility... there's about a 0% chance I'm going to spending a whole lotta time or money in your establishment.
Goes for everyone but right now, I'm especially talking to you, #TopGolf.

I’ve had this contingent of the language police show up in my replies a few times now over the word “cosplay,” and look…
OK, I get it, I get the instinct to say “Don’t drag me into this!” and I applaud the effort to push fascists out of communities, yes to all that…
…and also we need to recognize that what ICE is doing absolutely •is• cosplay. The word means “costume play.” It refers to assembling and wearing costumes that are not necessarily functional, but show affinity for a particular subculture by reproducing characters from that subculture’s popular narratives.
ICE are cosplaying Call of Duty. That is an accurate description of what’s happening. (Listen to “Gear.”)
I make software and I make music. I don’t think either one of those things •should• be about violence. I don’t •want• them to be about violence. But both are used in the service of violence, like it or not. I shout the violence out whenever it shows up. But would be ridiculous for me to point at what Palantir does and say “That’s not software!” Unfortunately, it •is• software. To deny that would be beyond self-defeating; it would be irresponsible.
ICE •is• doing cosplay, and we hate it. It’s an insult to the cosplay subculture. It is an insult to the whole of humanity. Fascism creeps into all of our spheres, into every beloved craft and community, and the response is never to pretend it’s not there. The response is to drive it out.
@…
https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@wildrikku/115956545807535535

Tackling complex tasks can feel like taming chaos, but classical music is a brilliant remedy. A well-composed symphony turns chaos into clarity. 🎻 Personally, it elevates my focus and productivity. Do you harness music to boost your performance? 🎶 Let's orchestrate success with the right rhythm!

Nick Carter and Brian Littrell of the Backstreet Boys talk Raiders, music and Las Vegas https://www.raiders.com/video/backstreet-boys-nick-carter-brian-littrell-music-las-vegas

Listening to Tom Petty now as I mentioned I'd have to do- 'Echo' from 1999. And man, is this one still buried in there, I know like, every lyric still. Right before it, I did 7Seconds' one from 1999, 'Good to Go'. Must be a 1999 kind of day. What a year for music.
#90s #90sMusic

Spannendes Konzert amSonntag für die #FediKirche
So., 1. Februar 2026, 18:00 - 19:00
Versöhnungskirche, #Esslingen (Oberesslingen)
Let the music pray
Jazz und Soul: geistliches Liedgut

Some amazing shots of the old Twin Towers in this classic 80s hip-hop video. I doubt anyone can get this close to any buildings these days.
#music #hiphop #rap

"Chris Rea, rock and blues singer-songwriter, dies aged 74"
I always quite liked his music, even if it is outside my usual bubble.
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/dec/22/chris-rea-rock-and-blues-singer-songwriter-d…

Nick Carter and Brian Littrell of the Backstreet Boys talk Raiders, music and Las Vegas https://www.raiders.com/video/backstreet-boys-nick-carter-brian-littrell-music-las-vegas

The People's Music Network has passed an Anti-ICE Resolution
#PeoplesMusicNetwork

People's Music Network Anti-ICE Resolution
The People's Music Network [for Songs of Freedom and Struggle] (PMN/SFS) Steering Committee passed this Resolution on February 22: ATTENTION! The Steering ...

A squeezy Christmas Morning to you on the west coast of North Amerikay! 🎅🏽
Here’s a bundle of never-heard-on-our-show before #accordion tunes from last night’s Cringle episode of @… radio 🪗
As the show-notes say, it includes a bit of piracy and tub…

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2025-12-24: Some Reindeer are Knocking on Our Chimney
If you’re going to be playing an hour of music on Christmas Eve, you need to either be explicitly embracing or rejecting the occasion. In this week’s episode of Accordion Noir, Bruce ki…

someone needs to turn off the music loop in the Hall3 foyer assembly toilets, or there will be a technical incident soon #39c3

ElevenLabs launches an album of original tracks made by artists like Liza Minnelli and Art Garfunkel in "collaboration" with its Eleven Music AI model (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/music/news/elevenlabs…

ElevenLabs' Eleven Album Features AI Songs From Liza Minnelli, Art Garfunkel
ElevenLabs launched 'The Eleven Album,' a partnership with artists like Liza Minelli and Art Garfunkel to 'co-create' original music with its AI-based model.

Apple KI-fiziert Apple Music ein bisschen – und arbeitet mit TikTok zusammen
Apple Intelligence wird in Apple Music derzeit nicht verwendet. Mit den nächsten iOS- und macOS-Versionen soll sich das ändern. Neu ist auch eine TikTok-Koop.

Gears in the Rain – Wistfulness
https://www.zenapolae.com/zen326
https://www.clongclongmoo.org/2026/02/24/g…

Making music with MIDI just got a real boost in Windows 11 https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2026/02/17/making-music-with-midi-just-got-a-real-boost-in-windows-11/

Oh yes! I will see #Rush one more time live, in Amsterdam. #Music

Listening to the Christmas concert from Wiener Konzerthaus. Good music, but why does Brownlee sing the musical pieces with vibrato?
I'm not much of a classical music buff and ignorant of much in this field, but this came across to me as odd. It's almost as if the Tenor decided to not adapt his technique to the style of the piece.
Is this common, or with purpose?
Or to put it in another way, is using vibrato a choice?

#Requiescat For Éliane Radigue. https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/feb/24/eliane-radigue-french-composer-dies-aged-94

Headed to Salzburg in the am! Walking back from dinner tonight my daughter asked me my fav song from Sound of Music. I replied “Favorite Things” my wife of 30 years, Collette said “He’s wrong, it’s Edelweiss.” Which is A) WRONG, and B) such a Collette thing to say.
That she would say it with such confidence is one of the many things I love about her.

Series A, Episode 01 - The Way Back
VARON: I don't know.
MAJA: Give me one minute and I'll come with you.
[Scene: The Public Records computer. An OPERATOR is listening to some music at his desk, with his feet up.]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/101/265 B7B2

My work in progress for a playlist for Christmas (without ick) #Music

Christmas
Playlist - Christmas - 12 items

ドラマティック・ガール

• YouTube
• Apple Music
• YouTube Music

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#EssentialClassics
- The best classical morning music
Ian Skelly plays the best in classical music, with discoveries and surprises rubbing shoulders with familiar favourites.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002nlqk

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
Elvis Presley:
🎵 Santa Bring My Baby Back (to Me)
#ElvisPresley
https://moochinaboutltd.bandcamp.com/album/santa-bring-my-baby-back-to-me-spirituals-christmas-music
https://open.spotify.com/track/51lstyLwzTXYS1Ce1HRl89

lastfm_aminer: Last.fm social graph
This network contains the social graph of last.fm, a site that provides a streaming radio service, where users can search music and get personalized recommendation. A directed edge (i,j) means that user i follows user j.
This network has 136409 nodes and 1685524 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted

evening peace: brian eno & j. peter schwalm perform "4-D music" inside a volcano in spain in 2001, studio-quality radio broadcast. https://archive.org/details/01.-part-i

Brian Eno & J. Peter Schwalm - 2001-10-13 - Volcán del Cuervo, Lanzarote, Spain : Brian Eno & J. Peter Schwalm : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
BRIAN ENO & J. PETER SCHWALM BETWEEN US & IT A performed installation of 4-D MUSIC13th October, 2001. Volcán del Cuervo, Lanzarote.digital radio > wav >...

OMG mike white gets sad piano music for how hard it is to be a show runner??? That's wild.
#survivor

Potentially my most heretical musical opinion: The Grateful Dead studio recordings are just better, especially without an altered sense of time. Also, and I’m not sure if this is related, it is some of the best house cleaning music ever recorded. #music #gratefuldead

Pirate activist group Anna's Archive says it scraped 86M music files and 256M rows of track metadata from Spotify, and releases them in ~300TB of torrent files (Mitchell Peters/Billboard)
https://www.billboard.com/business/streaming/spotify-music-libra…

Spotify Music Library Leaked Online by Pirate Activist Group
A pirate activist group has reportedly scraped and released all of Spotify’s music. The breach includes 86 million audio files.

Universal Music Group partners with music creation platform Splice to build "advanced commercial AI tools" for musical artists (Ethan Millman/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/music/mu

Universal Music Group and Splice Ink AI Partnership
The new pact is the latest AI music development for the world's largest music company after settling a lawsuit with Udio in October.

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#WordsAndMusic
- The Victorian World
A celebration of the reign of Queen Victoria with prose, poetry and music from writers and composers of the era, including words from Victoria and music from Prince Albert.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002q3zt

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Roxy Music:
🎵 Love Is The Drug
#NowPlaying #RoxyMusic
https://triple-m1.bandcamp.com/track/roxy-music-love-is-the-drug-triple-m-rework
https://open.spotify.com/track/3wtMkvedoWMQ3XTKv7tqcZ

証拠

• YouTube
• YouTube Music
• Invidious

blends a calming natural atmosphere with intentional reminders of the island’s darker history with carefully chosen lighting and music

赤い戦車

• YouTube
• YouTube Music
• Invidious

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Funkadelic:
🎵 Good Old Music
#Funkadelic
https://funkadelic.bandcamp.com/track/good-old-music
https://open.spotify.com/track/3uE0ByqQqgRKIo51YE4rWC

spent a peaceful sunday snow-in finishing @…'s epic forthcoming alice coltrane bio, following her illuminated thread from '60s #jazz into the wide & wider universe. the chronicle of an earthly life spent looking beyond and/or even d…

ElevenLabs releases an album of AI songs with voices of Liza Minnelli, Art Garfunkel, and others to promote its AI music generator and Iconic Voice Marketplace (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/music/news/elevenlabs-…

ElevenLabs' Eleven Album Features AI Songs From Liza Minnelli, Art Garfunkel
ElevenLabs launched 'The Eleven Album,' a partnership with artists like Liza Minelli and Art Garfunkel to 'co-create' original music with its AI-based model.

OCHA NORMA『女の愛想は武器じゃない』Dance Practice

• YouTube
• YouTube Music
• Invidious

YouTube updates its $7.99 per month Premium Lite subscription to let users download videos for offline access and play videos in the background (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/24/youtube-beefs-up-…

YouTube beefs up its $7.99/month Lite subscription with offline downloads and background play | TechCrunch
Now the only reason to get the full Premium subscription is ad-free music and music videos.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@GLONO/116132021358749834
Yeah, impressive staying power. She's been doing cool music and art since I was a teenager.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #WoPop
Tzotziles:
🎵 Music in Celebration of the Christmas Holiday
#Tzotziles
https://subrosalabel.bandcamp.com/track/music-in-celebration-of-the-christmas-holiday
https://open.spotify.com/track/0N0Xaf5CPDLmb95BwgWxcU

Pirate activist group Anna's Archive says it scraped 86M music files and 256M rows of track metadata from Spotify, and releases them in ~300TB of torrent files (Mitchell Peters/Billboard)
https://www.billboard.com/business/streaming/spotify-music-libra…

Spotify Music Library Scraped by Pirate Activist Group
A pirate activist group has reportedly scraped and released metadata from Spotify, and intends to release 86 million audio files.

またね来世で

• YouTube
• Spotify
• Tidal
• YouTube Music<…

Luminate 2025 report: the global music industry hit 5.1T streams, up 9.6% YoY and a single-year record; AI artist Xania Monet had 125M on-demand audio streams (Maria Sherman/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/music-listen…

Global music streams hit 5 trillion in 2025
The global music industry hit 5.1 trillion streams in 2025. That’s a new single-year record, up 9.6% from 2024. That’s according to a 2025 Year-End Report from Luminate. They are an industry data and analytics company that provides insight into changing behaviors across music listenership. In the U.S., on-demand audio streams hit 1.4 trillion. That’s a 4.6% increase from last year. But attention is on older music. Less than half all U.S. on-demand audio streams were from tracks released i…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #Breakfast
Johann Sebastian Bach, Stephen Cleobury, Academy of Ancient Music & Choir of King’s College, Cambridge:
🎵 St. Matthew Passion: O Haupt voll Blut und Wunden
#StephenCleobury
https://open.spotify.com/track/4RNC1OU5wRrReeeSDpEQlJ

Penske Media names Leila Cobo and Jason Lipshutz as co-chief content officers of Billboard, overseeing editorial content and newsroom operations (Katie Atkinson/Billboard)
https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/leila-cobo-…

Billboard Promotes Leila Cobo & Jason Lipshutz to Co-Chief Content Officers
Leila Cobo and Jason Lipshutz have been promoted to co-chief content officers of Billboard, the global music brand announced Tuesday.

ASP / I HATE U [OFFiCiAL ViDEO]

• YouTube
• Apple Music

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#NightTracks
- Nocturnal music to bewitch the senses
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002q4mk

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Roxy Music:
🎵 Out of the Blue
#RoxyMusic
https://open.spotify.com/track/4jPGlxPPQarO9osxGqwGX1
Please 🔁 BOOST to share what you like
- your followers don't see if you ⭐ favourite a post

BBC Sounds reports more than 2.5B plays of radio, music, and podcasts between January and November, up 8% YoY; podcast listening alone is up 15% YoY (Advanced Television)
https://www.advanced-television.com/2025/12/23/bbc-sounds-sees-record-plays-in-2025/…

BBC Sounds sees record plays in 2025
BBC Sounds has reported another record-breaking year with over 2.5 billion plays of radio, music and podcasts between January and November 2025 – an increase

A look at Track Star, a YouTube music quiz show that has become a stop on the celebrity promo trail and has started creating documentary-style music features (Jessica M. Goldstein/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/arts/music/track-star-youtub…

How Track Star Became a YouTube and TikTok Music Phenomenon
“Track Star” is the YouTube series that brings out the music lover in celebrities and civilians alike.

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#NightTracks
- Meditative music for late night solace
Hannah Peel presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002n9t0

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#Breakfast
- Wake up with classical music
Tom McKinney presents Radio 3's Breakfast show. To get in touch, email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002rfjq

One Thousand Tears of a Tarantula (Official Music Video) Dir: Mischa Livingstone

Apple launches Apple Music Connect, a new resource for music labels and distributors to manage promotional assets, upload press photos, and more (Tim Hardwick/MacRumors)
https://www.macrumors.com/2026/02/18/apple-music-connect-launched-for-labels/

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#Breakfast
- Ease into the day with classical music
Tom McKinney presents Radio 3's Breakfast show. To get in touch, email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002rgxl

Mummy The Peepshow - Kick Off!

• YouTube
• YouTube Music
• Invidious

YouTube updates its $7.99 per month Premium Lite subscription to let users download videos for offline access and play videos in the background (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/24/youtube-beefs-up-…

YouTube beefs up its $7.99/month Lite subscription with offline downloads and background play | TechCrunch
Now the only reason to get the full Premium subscription is ad-free music and music videos.

KOTO / “ 琴虎飯店 ” TwitCasting LIVE 3/7

• YouTube
• YouTube Music
• Invidious

Beyond The Timeless Flight

• YouTube
• Apple Music

Luminate's 2025 report: the global music industry hit 5.1T streams, up 9.6% YoY; on-demand US streams hit 1.4T, up 4.6% YoY; Christian/gospel music grew 18.5% (Maria Sherman/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/music-liste

Global music streams hit 5 trillion in 2025
The global music industry hit 5.1 trillion streams in 2025. That’s a new single-year record, up 9.6% from 2024. That’s according to a 2025 Year-End Report from Luminate. They are an industry data and analytics company that provides insight into changing behaviors across music listenership. In the U.S., on-demand audio streams hit 1.4 trillion. That’s a 4.6% increase from last year. But attention is on older music. Less than half all U.S. on-demand audio streams were from tracks released i…

I think about Mary Poppins

• YouTube
• Spotify

A look at the electronic music scene in 2026, where bigger venues, higher ticket prices and social media have turned dance floors into spectator events (Tiffany Ap/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-02-20/a-boo…

The Dance Floor Is Disappearing In a Sea of Phones
Electronic music’s club culture is facing an existential moment as bigger venues, higher ticket prices and social media turn dance floors into spectator events.

Analysis: music copyright's global value rose 5.2% YoY to a record $47.2B in 2024; the revenue split favored labels and artists at 62%, above songwriters' 38% (Will Page/Pivotal Economics)
https://pivotaleconomics.com/undercurrents/music-copyright-2025

Global Value of Music Copyright Hits New All-Time High, Nearly Doubling in a Decade to $47.2bn in 2024 — Pivotal Economics
The global value of music copyright reached $47.2bn in 2024. That's up just $2.3bn (5.2%) on the prior year; growth is slowing largely because this is the first year where the pandemic effects have vanished.