The surprising part, however, is that Canadian artists seem to be thriving globally, and in 2024, Canadian music artists earned CAD $460 million in royalties on Spotify, which is almost double the ...

Three of the top 10 tracks in India in 2022 were made by Canadian artists. On Spotify, the top streamed track was “Excuses” by AP Dhillon, Gurinder Gill and Intense, who broke out from British ...

Spotify said data showed users’ most streamed global artist of 2022 was the Puerto Rican rapper Bad Bunny, whose real name is Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio. His music was streamed more than 18 ...

Spotify said that, in 2024, nearly 1,500 artists generated over $1 million in royalties from the platform, with 80% not having a song that reached the Spotify Global Daily Top 50 chart.

In 2020, CEO Daniel Ek defended Spotify’s payouts, suggesting that “obviously, some artists that used to do well in the past may not do well in this future landscape, where you can’t record ...