American Artists Account for 69% of US Spotify Streams
The streaming giant marked July 4 with some stats on America’s patriotic streaming habits
As America celebrated its 250th birthday on July 4, Spotify released statistics about the country’s streaming habits and its affinity with homegrown artists.
The stats:
69% of all streams in the US are for American artists.
70% of the Spotify Top 50 chart in the US is comprised of American music.
Listeners in the South and Midwest stream the most American-made music.
Taylor Swift, Bad Bunny, Morgan Wallen, Kendrick Lamar, and Post Malone are among the top most-streamed American artists in the US.
74% of Wallen’s streams come from US listeners, which is the highest share among American artists.
Swift, Bad Bunny, Ariana Grande, Billie Eilish and Eminem are among the most-streamed American artists of all time globally.
In the past year alone, listeners outside the US streamed songs featuring at least one American artist 776 billion times.
Pop, hip-hop, rock, indie, and country are the American genres most streamed domestically.
Internationally, pop, hip-hop, rock, dance, and indie lead.
Over the past five years, streams of American country music have grown more than 94% outside the US.
Royalties generated by US artists from Spotify alone have, according to the company, more than doubled since 2019, with nearly half coming from listeners outside the US.
👋 Disclosures & Transparency Block
This story was written with information from Spotify’s press release.
We covered it because it’s news of American streaming habits.
