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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Grammy Awards add new categories including Asian Pop and Latin
The US Grammy Awards are getting new categories for 2027, including two that continue its expansion into international genres and scenes.
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.
Beatport saw surge in subscriptions from Latin America in 2025
Beatport’s business is growing rapidly in Latin America. The electronic-music service saw its user registrations in the region grow by 25% in 2025, and its paying subscriptions increase by 41%. […]
Next-gen labels: new models, new ideas and, yes, some AI
One of the main strands at our Music Ally NEXT conference this June is ‘next-gen labels’. Here are some notable recent examples.
Cactus Music taps AI for ‘Artist Ops’ to support human musicians
Cactus Music began life in 2013 in Chile as a record label, before pivoting five years later to become a marketing agency.
From Access to Infrastructure: How Managers Can Win at Streaming
For the first decade of streaming, success was largely about access. The industry focused on getting music onto digital service providers as quickly and widely as possible, and solving distribution […]
Connect 2026: Global music focus report
This is news coverage of Music Ally Connect 2026 – our international music business conference that is taking place 22–23 January 2026 in London. While Music Ally Connect 2026 had […]
The A to Z of AI Music in 2025, Part 2: GEMA to Merlin
Here’s the second part of our look-back at the key talking points around AI and music in 2025, as well as the implications for 2026.
Country Profile – Peru 2025
Peru is perhaps not as well known for music as its Latin American neighbours – but its domestic business is developing rapidly. Read more, including marketing insight, here:
Ozuna is now a budding media-mogul with Latino-focused Mucho
With 47.8 million listeners on Spotify alone, Puerto Rican artist Ozuna remains one of the big global-breakout successes from Latin America in the streaming era. Now he’s spreading his business […]
Spotify launches weekly listening stats and LatAm Spotify Sessions
Just the two announcements from Spotify yesterday: a slow day by recent standards. The first is a new feature for free and premium users worldwide giving them weekly “listening stats”. Delivered […]
