Spotify says artists from 75 countries made $500K+ in royalties in 2025, up from 66 in 2024; ~50% of an average artist's streams came from outside their country
“The takeaway here is that music has become increasingly borderless,” Spotify's Joe Hadley says of the company's latest loud and clear report released Wednesday
YouTube says it has paid out $100B+ to creators over the last four years and the number of YouTube channels making over $100K from TV screens has jumped 45% YoY
YouTube said on Tuesday it has paid out over $100 billion to creators, artists and media companies since 2021.
Dealroom.co: content licensing and data marketplace startups like Pip Labs and ProRata have raised $215M since 2022 to help artists sell content for AI training
New crop of companies are offering artists ability to sell content to big tech firms to train AI See also Mediagazer
Spotify says it paid $10B+ in royalties in 2024, “the largest in music history”, making up 60%+ of its $17.13B+ 2024 revenue, with ~1,500 artists earning $1M+
Anna Nicolaou / Financial Times :
Tune.fm, a music streaming service with an integrated NFT marketplace that pays artists via blockchain micropayments, raised $50M from Global Emerging Markets
Ana Paula Pereira / Cointelegraph :
The FBI says that losses from crypto-related frauds increased 45% YoY to $5.6B in 2023, with losses from investment scams accounting for 71% of the total
FBI Tanzeel Akhtar / Cryptonews : FBI Reports $5.6B Lost to Crypto Fraud, 45% Increase in Loss Since Prev Year Associated Press : Americans lost $5.6 billion last year in cryptocurrency fraud scams, t...
Analysis: ABBA Voyage, the London show performed by 3D avatars of the band created using motion capture, made £322.6M in revenue in the 12 months since May 2022
As other artists see how much money there is to be made I wonder if we'll see such shows from long dead artists …
London-based ticketing company Dice raised $65M led by MUSIC, taking its total funding to $200M+; Dice expects to serve 55K+ artists and 10K+ venues in 2023
Glenn Peoples / Billboard :
Sound, which helps artists mint their songs as NFTs, raised a $20M Series A led by a16z with Snoop Dogg and others participating and launches out of beta
The company aims to help artists make a living for their music by minting their songs on-chain and selling them directly to fans.
Stability AI raised a $101M seed, a source says at a ~$1B valuation, and its CEO says Stable Diffusion has 10M DAUs and its web app DreamStudio has 1.5M+ users
no billionaires, big funds, governments or anyone else with control of the company or the communities we support. We're completely independent," The future is open-source🔥 https://twitter.com/... Jim ...