By Randi Zimmerman, Content Specialist, Symphonic Latin America was one of the fastest-growing recorded music regions in 2024, with revenue up 22.5%. Today, the region continues to shape global pop, […]
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Music business ended 2025 with 921.6m paid streaming subscribers
By the end of this year, it’s quite possible that there will be more than one billion music subscribers globally.
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Sua Música hails 5m first-week streams for Ronaldinho’s Tu Música label
Here’s a pop-quiz question to store in your memory banks: how many listeners does retired Brazilian football star Ronaldinho have on Spotify? The answer, right now, is 2.4 million. This is […]
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Sandbox Guide :: Embracing the youth social media bans
Sandbox Guides are for music marketers: explaining new platforms, new strategies, and how to build new audiences. Featuring cutting-edge case studies, expert interviews, benchmark data, and a series of actionable takeaways, […]
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Brazilian artists’ Spotify royalties grew by 24% in 2025
Spotify paid out R$2bn of royalties for music by Brazilian artists in 2025, the company has announced. That’s around $409.2m at current exchange rates. The payouts grew by 24% compared to […]
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A&R10: Sua Música boss talks Ronaldinho’s new record label
Brazilian footballing legend Ronaldinho was renowned for his silky skills on the pitch, not to mention legendary partying abilities.
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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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Report explores ‘streaming paradox’ for artists in five countries
The latest study exploring musicians’ views on the music-streaming economy comes from the Oxford Internet Institute and researchers at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. They surveyed 1,200 musicians […]
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Spotify launches Bad Bunny pop-up and… a music-streaming urn?
Bad Bunny’s global tour touched down in São Paulo, Brazil last week, and Spotify was there to capitalise with a ‘De Puerto Rico Pa’l Mundo’ (‘From Puerto Rico to the World’) pop-up […]
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Brazil’s ‘Operation Authentica’ secures latest court order
‘Operation Authentica’ is the ongoing crackdown by the Brazilian authorities on companies offering streaming-fraud services to artificially boost streams and other engagement metrics on music, video and social platforms. The […]
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TikTok ups its superfans rev-share for North American creators
TikTok has tweaked the revenue share it offers creators in the US and Canada for superfan subscriptions, giving them a bigger percentage of the digital loot. From the start of […]
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IFPI welcomes Brazilian court’s ruling in streaming-fraud case
It’s not a great time to be a streaming-manipulation service in Brazil. Music bodies and the local authorities are gunning for companies.