US EditionMusic streams hit 5 trillion in 2025. Christian, rock and Latin lead growth in the US
Christian/gospel streams grew 18.5% in the U.S. while rock and Latin also saw strong increases, with Bad Bunny driving Latin music's continued rise.
- Last year, Luminate's 2025 Year‑End Report showed the global music industry hit 5.1 trillion streams, a new single-year record up 9.6% from 2024.
- Luminate's mid-year analysis found Christian/gospel, rock and Latin led growth this year, with rock expanding 6.4% and Latin up 5.2%, driven by Bad Bunny's 2.97 billion streams.
- Luminate's breakdown shows genre totals including rap and R&B at 349.9 billion, rock at 122.5 billion, and U.S. on‑demand audio streams hit 1.4 trillion, last year.
- High-Profile AI artists emerged as a major story, with Xania Monet becoming the first AI act to debut on a Billboard chart, while Christian/gospel on-demand audio rose 18.5% in the U.S. last year.
- Attention is on older music, with less than half of U.S. streams—43%—from the last five years, while Luminate highlights generative AI’s impact using models trained on real artists.
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The global music industry hit 5.1 trillion streams in 2025. It’s a new single-year record, up 9.6 percent from 2024, which held the previous record. That’s according to a 2025 Year-End Report from Luminate, an industry data and analytics company that provides insight into changing behaviors across music listenership. In the United States, on-demand audio […]...Keep on reading: Americans’ fave music in ’25? Rock, Gospel songs
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Music streams hit 5 trillion in 2025. Christian, rock and Latin lead growth in the US
The global music industry hit 5.1 trillion streams in 2025. That’s a new single-year record, up 9.6% from 2024. That’s according to a 2025 Year-End Report from Luminate.
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