The Indian music industry faces challenges in transitioning consumers from free to paid streaming amid rising AI-generated ...

EMI has ended several months of speculation by confirming it will remain a member of global labels body IFPI, following high-level meetings in recent months between the four majors and the body. By ...

Adele's "30" leads the way on IFPI's global albums charts, and does so in record breaking fashion. By Lars Brandle Adele didn’t go easy on her music-making rivals in 2021, as her latest album 30 ...

Globally, we have 837 mn individual subscriber accounts in 2025 up from 750 mn in 2024. It's (largely) US, UK, although the ...

MGA (outside Japan, Mrs. GREEN APPLE goes by MGA) stood out as the only Japanese act to appear on the IFPI's 2026 Global ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. BTS was named the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry’s Global Recording Artist of the Year Award for the second ...

BTS top a third IFPI chart for 2020 -- the Global Album Sales tally. By Lars Brandle BTS aren’t done with rewriting the history books. The K-pop superstars bag another IFPI award, this time topping ...

Taylor Swift was the best-selling recording artist of 2019, according to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, the organization that represents the recorded music industry ...

This story appears in Rolling Stone‘s 2021 Future of Music issue, a special project delving into the next era of the multibillion-dollar hitmaking business. Read the other stories here. The biggest ...

It’s official: online piracy has only one real solution, and that solution will be taxpayer-funded. International music trade group IFPI today issued its annual report on digital music (PDF), and ...

Industry income from Spotify and rival services up 51% but Japanese drop pulls overall sales down Global recorded music revenues fell by 3.9% to $15bn in 2013, despite income from subscription ...