Welcome to our sixth annual Music Ally International Focus report – where we bring all of Music Ally’s Country Profiles published in the last 12 months into one place.
Tag: Chile
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.
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 […]
Horizontal videos made Chilean artist Easykid go viral on TikTok
If you spend too long on TikTok’s index page of videos using Chilean artist Easykid’s track ‘Shiny’ you’ll end up with a cricked neck. Why? Because many of them have been filmed […]
Country Profile – Chile 2025
Chile’s recorded music business is one of the fastest growing in Latin America, driven by local music. In this report: Read more, including marketing insight, here:
Country Profile – Chile 2021
Chile might be not as well known for producing music as its Latin American neighbours but its music industry punches above its weight
Chilean music downloads store PortalDisc moves into streaming
Apple Music and Amazon Music are far from the only streaming services whose origin stories involve music download stores. PortalDisc is the biggest downloads store in Chile, but it is […]
Spotify hails Santiago as the ‘streaming capital of reggaetón’
Nearly a year ago, Spotify dubbed Mexico City the ‘world’s music-streaming Mecca’. Now it’s branding another Latin American city, in a blog post claiming Santiago is the streaming service’s ‘capital of […]
Chile is blazing a trail for music-streaming in Latin America
Spotify has more than three million users in Chile, a country of around 18m people, according to local sources. In January 2019, Spotify’s Will Page told the FT claimed that […]
Country Profile – Chile 2019
Chile is South America’s leader in digital and telecommunications infrastructure and as such the country is blazing a trail for streaming in the region’s music industry with revenues up by […]
Country Profile – Chile 2018
Chile’s recorded music industry reported its fourth straight year of double-digit growth last year with the country’s high level of mobile-phone penetration playing a key role
Music Ally Report 376 – Writing Wrongs: Music Publishing’s Biggest Challenges Laid Bare
Our cover feature nails down what the issues dominating the publishing industry currently are. Metadata is, by far, the biggest time bomb. Payments are being slowed down and discovery options […]

