Music Industry Nears 1B Global Subscribers; Bluesound Adds Waybox to Streaming Platform
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The music industry is closing in on a billion global subscribers – with Spotify out in front
The number of music streaming subscribers globally reached 921.6 million at the end of 2025, nearing the 1 billion mark. That is according to Midia Research, whose latest Music Subscriber Market Shares report estimates that the global subscriber count grew 10.1% YoY in 2025.
Bluesound adds Portuguese music service Waybox to streaming platform
Bluesound Professional, a provider of networked streaming audio solutions for commercial spaces, has added Waybox – a Portugal-exclusive business music service – to its BluOS platform, giving integrators in the country a locally focused music option for commercial installations.
With 500M Users, Is It Time To Add Threads To Your Marketing?
Meta's X alternative Threads just passed 500 million monthly active users and added useful features for artists, venues and music marketers.
5 New Apple Music Features Coming In iOS 27
After a big update to Apple Music with iOS 26, with the latest batch of features arriving in iOS 26.4, Apple took a step back from upgrading the streaming service in iOS 27. After the WWDC 2026 keynote, the company revealed a few tweaks, and developers have discovered other minor changes in the first iOS 27 beta.
Qobuz Delivers 45.7% Revenue Growth Results as Listeners Leave Big Streaming
Qobuz is rapidly becoming a global player alongside the music streaming giants in a major success story for the independent French company.
Boy George Wants to Use AI to Reclaim ‘Karma Chameleon’
The Culture Club frontman is launching a new company that uses AI-assisted rerecordings to re-create classic hits, creating what he hopes will become an artist-owned alternative to the original masters.
How Spotify Beach Is Bringing Fandom to Life at Cannes Lions 2026
The annual Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity in France is where creators, brands, and fans collide to celebrate the world’s most innovative ideas in marketing. This year, Spotify is back to welcome guests with an incredible lineup of experiences and conversations designed to bring fandom to life.
Superfan platform EVEN partners with Cinq Music to bring D2C tools to indie company’s global artist roster
The Cinq deal follows a run of distributor and label partnerships for EVEN over the past year.
Two Concert Livestreams in One Day? Amazon Music Tees Up ‘Free Worldwide Broadcast’ of Goose’s Madison Square Garden Show
Amazon Music’s scored another big livestream – this time from Goose, which is now set to make an upcoming Madison Square Garden concert “available to watch for free worldwide.”
Investigation by The Atlantic reveals many millions of songs used for AI music training
Taylor Swift, Bad Bunny and many, many more artists have had their work fed into AI models.
Spotify’s Joe Hadley: The HITS Interview
Spotify's versatile exec on building bridges between artists and fans.
Warner Music launches ‘Listen Up’ artist accelerator to scale talent from APAC
Warner is positioning Hong Kong artist Gareth.T as a proof point, with his single ‘Glass’ generating more than 250 million streams in its first month.
AI music is everywhere now — and almost nobody can tell
AI-generated music is becoming increasingly common and increasingly difficult to recognise.
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