Global music streaming continued to grow in 2025.
A new report from Luminate shows that on-demand audio streams increased by 9.6% year over year.
The total climbed from 4.7 trillion streams in 2024 to 5.1 trillion in 2025.
However, the data also highlights how uneven streaming success remains.
About 88% of all tracks received fewer than 1,000 plays during the year.
Even so, roughly 541,000 songs form what the report describes as the backbone of global consumption.
Tracks that earn between 1 million and 50 million plays account for 49.4% of all streams.
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Regionally, the United States ranked as the world’s top music exporter in 2025.
The United Kingdom followed in second place. Pop led exports from the U.S., while rock remained the U.K.’s strongest international genre.
Meanwhile, listener behavior revealed clear platform trends.
Fans of electronic dance music showed a higher likelihood of streaming through YouTube and Spotify.
Finally, Luminate reported that premium listening remains concentrated in a few major markets.
Nearly half of all premium streams on services such as Apple Music and Spotify come from four countries: the United States, Mexico, Brazil, and Germany.
Read the full report from Luminate here.
