Who is in the Zen-Zone? Insights on Meditation, Sleep & Focus Music
School’s back in session and with it millions of students across the country once again face the oft-dreaded pastime of homework. Whether in elementary school, high school, college or pursuing a postgraduate degree the act of doing homework spans generations.
Anime’s Impact on Music Discovery
Yesterday, at the All That Matters conference in Singapore, Luminate VP, International Helena Kosinksi delivered a presentation on the Asian music market. The presentation, Global Music & Metrics: A Data-Driven Overview of the Asian Music Industry, set the stage for the day’s panels and discussions by providing attendees with an overview of the Asian streaming landscape including country-by-country streaming growth and recent trends in language. Additionally, Kosinski detailed a case-study on how Anime helps drive music discovery and provided a path for Japanese duo Yoasobi’s song “Aidoru” to go global.
Kicking Off a New Season of Fan Stats
As the calendar turns to September many sports fans across the US will be living their best lives. Consider that through September and October the NFL, MLB, NBA and NHL will all have regular season or post-season games. Add in the college football season hitting its stride through September and it’s a wonderful time of the year for sports fans.
Which Weekday is the Streaming Superstar?
With nearly 3.5B On-Demand Audio (ODA) streams in the US alone on any given day, streaming data allows analysts to investigate a wide variety of questions relevant to the music industry. Whether it’s artist streaming velocity, the genres that are growing the fastest, or which song is driving the most activity, both macro and micro trends are visible.
Why are Super Fans so Valuable?
In Luminate’s 2023 Midyear Music Report, released last month in July, we revealed that 15% of the US general public can be categorized as super fans. At Luminate, we define super fan as those fans that engage with artists and their content in 5+ different ways.
Is Luke Combs’ “Fast Car” Driving Tracy Chapman Discovery
For the second summer in a row, an iconic ‘80s song is a smash across music consumption formats and now sits in the upper echelon of the Billboard Hot 100. The 2023 twist is that it’s a cover.
Midyear Report Spotlight: Artists & Fans are in their D2C Era
In Luminate’s newly released 2023 Midyear Music Report we dive into the biggest trends impacting the Global music industry so far this year. While we cover topics as diverse as Super Fans, the consumption of non-English music, and content proliferation through the course of the report, let’s jump into the world of Direct-To-Consumer (D2C) sales today to look at the wide sweeping trends. (For those readers who may be unfamiliar with the term “D2C,” this is essentially product and apparel sold directly to consumers via official online artist and label stores.)
Breaking News: Luminate Releases 2023 Midyear Music Report
Luminate’s 2023 Midyear Music Report is out now, providing an in-depth, data-driven look at the state of the global music industry so far this year. Did you know that 40% of Music Listeners in the U.S. listen to music in a non-English language? Or that global On-Demand streams (audio + video) are up +30.8% so far this year?
Five Eye-Catching Stats from MusicBiz
Luminate was in Nashville earlier this month for MusicBiz where we shared Insights on a full range of music data and intelligence topics. Through presentations and workshops we shared insights on topics from global streaming acceleration to content proliferation, adoption of the metaverse and next generation consumer touchpoints, the physical product marketplace and the impact of sync partnerships on consumption. Here are five of the most eye-catching stats we shared at MusicBiz from our analysis.
Spinning Steel: Heavy Metal Fans Embrace Vinyl Records
When Metallica released 72 Seasons, their first album of new material since 2016’s Hardwired…To Self-Destruct, the legendary metal band powered to #2 on the Billboard 200 (week ending 4/20/23) while amassing the most activity for a rock album in 3.5 years.