Last month, DMN Pro revealed that Spotify’s US-based subscriber growth rate was slowing in 2024 and early 2025, citing Spotify’s Q1 2025 disclosures. Now, newly obtained data reveals that Spotify’s US-based subscriber levels are actually declining, at least during the first few months of 2025.

Spotify touted significant year-over-year subscriber gains worldwide during its Q1 2025 earnings call. However, US-based subscribers are growing at the slowest rate compared to other worldwide regions, part of a continuing trend across North America and Europe.

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.