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Daniel Griffiths

Streaming, live performance, and direct-to-fan sales are on the rise: How to make money from music in 2025

Luminate Report 2024.

Streaming is up, live performance is up, hip-hop remains king and the major labels are running scared. That’s according to Luminate’s 2024 year-end music report, the multi-page, multi-faceted industry report that pulls in charts and stats from Billboard and gives music makers a glimpse of everything that they should have been doing more of, what’s hot for 2025, and perhaps why 2024 didn’t go quite as expected.

Luminate’s databases house information compiled from over 500 verified sources, managing more than 20 trillion data points. And with Billboard on board for the charts you have to sit up and take notice.

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