The announcement of ‘new ISRC auto-assignment capabilities’ may sound dry, but it’s a valuable step forward in the ongoing battle to improve music metadata and get musicians and rightsholders paid […]
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IFPI hails Boom de Seguidores block in streaming-fraud fight
Brazil is one of the big positives in the recorded-music industry’s current growth story, rising one place to eighth in the IFPI’s global country-rankings for 2025. However, it also remains a focus […]
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Music Ally Insight Report :: The State of Music Streaming 2026
Welcome to our first Insight Report of 2026, which looks at the music streaming ecosystem. And the topic that dominates this year’s issue is, of course AI. But fret not: this […]
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Music and AI: ‘There is a really big opportunity here – if we get it right’
The IFPI launched its latest Global Music Report this morning in London, and AI was a key topic during the panel of label executives.
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Global recorded-music revenues grew 6.4% in 2025 to $31.7bn
Global labels body the IFPI has published its annual ‘Global Music Report’, which sets out the revenues earned by the recorded-music industry in 2025.
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Korean and Japanese artists dominate IFPI album-sales chart
The October release date for Taylor Swift’s ‘The Life of a Showgirl’ hobbled its chances in the big streaming platforms’ end-of-2025 charts – as Spotify explained in December. However, it’s a […]
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‘APT.’ was top global single of 2025 in IFPI’s 2024-heavy chart
Alongside its crowning of Taylor Swift as 2025’s biggest artist, the IFPI has named Bruno Mars and Rosé’s ‘APT.’ as the year’s top single.
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Taylor Swift was top global artist of 2025 says IFPI
The latest evidence of Taylor Swift honing her powers comes with music-industry body the IFPI’s ‘Global Artist of the Year’ chart.
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AI track ‘Jag vet, du är inte min’ banned from Swedish charts
We’re already thinking hard about how streaming services should treat AI-generated music in 2026, but as more tracks using AI in various ways go viral, there are challenges for another […]
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IFPI-commissioned report backs ‘bilateral’ licensing for AI music
The latest report setting out how licensing should work for GenAI music companies comes from economic consulting firm Compass Lexecon.
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IFPI shuts down 12 stream-ripping websites operating in Vietnam
It’s a busy month for the IFPI’s villain-busting teams. Fresh from the news of the latest court order tackling a streaming-fraud service in Brazil, now the global labels body has shut down […]
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IFPI report hails 9.1% growth for recorded music in the EU
Global labels body the IFPI has published the second edition of its ‘Music in the EU’ report, offering stats from the European Union as well as reiterating its key lobbying points […]
