As the music industry plans an extreme superfan makeover, who gets to control this party? The answer might be complicated – and seriously fragmented.

Driven by a monstrous Pophouse Entertainment infusion, music industry funding is now on a breakneck pace in 2025. According to rounds captured and compiled in DMN Pro’s Music Industry Funding Tracker, total core funding has surpassed $1.9 billion, potentially the start of a record-setting year.

For Spotify’s top brass and insiders, it’s been a very lucrative few years. But just how much money is being cashed out?

Vinyl records are the comeback story that nobody saw coming. But are we also missing a pending plateau?

YouTube Music, Amazon Music, Pandora Premium, and other streaming platforms struggled to gain subscribers in 2024, as Spotify and Apple Music notched their collective leads higher.

Data released this week from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) sheds new light on a seriously flattening streaming music subscriber picture in the United States. So what’s the music industry’s next move?

A detailed look at the latest bundling rates across major music streaming platforms in the United States, including Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, YouTube Music, LiveOne, and many others.

Duetti's recent $200 million in debt funding pushed core music industry funding past the half-a-billion threshold for 2025, per DMN Pro's Music Industry Funding Tracker. That's certainly a big number, though it pales compared to comparable YTD fingers in 2024 and 2023. Here's a breakdown of the numbers — and a look at which companies are scoring rounds.

A flyover of where things stand in the music industry’s critical AI legal cases.

Can Spotify’s ‘super-premium’ tier break the streaming music plateau? In this report, we pick apart the rumored offerings within ‘Music Pro’ – and examine the serious challenges that each presents from both an execution and consumer adoption standpoint.

A look at the latest music industry scuttlebutt on Spotify’s post-bundling renegotiations with major content owners – and how the calculus keeps shifting for publishers, labels, songwriters, and artists. If you want to force Spotify back to the negotiating table, you need some serious leverage — which Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group, and Sony Music Entertainment enjoy thanks to their colossal and culturally-relevant catalogs. In the case of UMG, there’s also a willingness to exercise the nucl... Read More...

If 2024 goes down as the year that streaming music entered a plateau, then 2025 could be the year that Apple Music closed the gap on Spotify’s subscriber lead — at least in the US . Here’s a look at the latest DSP market share numbers heading into Apple Music’s monstrous Super Bowl LIX Halftime Show sponsorship. Who’s winning the race for streaming music subscriber dominance? That’s a question we keep revisiting – only to discover an ever-tightening race amongst the biggest players. In our latest DM... Read More...