Photo: K-pop group | By Maria Sherman, AP News | Is non-English language music the future of the music business? Perhaps. The global music industry surpassed 1 trillion streams at the fastest pace, ever, in a calendar year, Luminate’s 2023 Midyear Report has found. The number was reached in three months, a full month faster than 2022.
Global streams are also up 30.8% from last year, reflective of an increasingly international music marketplace.
Additionally, Luminate found that two in five — or 40% — of U.S. music listeners enjoy music in a non-English language. And a whopping 69% of U.S. music listeners enjoy music from artists originating outside of the U.S.
According to the report, Spanish, French, Japanese, Korean, Italian, German, and Arabic are the most popular languages for non-Anglophonic music among U.S. music listeners, with Latin genres and K-pop leading the charge.
> > > > > > > > >
Read more of the good news here:
https://apnews.com/article/luminate-midyear-music-report-2023-7534c1506d8c9565168b37b635f76c8b
[Thanks to Alex Teitz for contributing this article! http://www.femmusic.com]
Music Streams for 2023 Hit 1 Trillion in Record Time. Latin and K-pop Artists are Big Reasons Why
