Streaming revenue now accounts for 60 percent of total revenue as of 2024, making it "bigger than the entire recorded music industry revenues for each year between 2003 and 2020," trade body IFPI finds.

Subscription streaming boosted global recorded music revenues for a tenth straight year in 2024, by 4.8% to $29.6 billion, an industry group said on Wednesday, while urging policymakers to protect artists from copyright threats by artificial intelligence developers.

In the IFPI's annual Global Music Report covering the music industry in 2024, revenues jumped 5% to $29.6 billion, though AI copyright issues loom.

Mariah Carey was presented with the Icon Award at the 2025 iHeartRadio Music Awards in Los Angeles on Monday, March 17. She honored her late mother, Patricia Carey, in her acceptance speech.

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Allegations of violence surrounding high-profile artists — a 2022 domestic-abuse charge levied against Lil Uzi Vert met with a plea of no contest, and a 2023 felony-aggravated-assault charge against Carti was later reported as dismissed — imply that abrasive views on these records come from somewhere real and worrying.

Playboi Carti's new album MUSIC is set to make a huge debut judging from the first week projections for the insanely hyped project. As reported by Hits Daily Double, Carti's third studio album is set to finish its first week of availability with 250,