American artists dominate on Spotify | Matt Connarton Unleashed

0:00 Some quick music news. This is from Digital Musicnews dot Com. Kind of appropriate for the holiday. They are reporting that sixty nine percent of Spotify streams in the US come from American artists. The latest data reveals, says. Spotify releases some listening stats for America's two hundred and fiftieth birthday, revealing that seventy percent oh. This says, seventy percent of the Spotify oh of the Spotify Top fifty in the US is made up of American music, so sixty nine percent overall, seventy five percent of the Top fifty in the US is made up of American music.

0:36 The United States is turning two fifty and Spotify has released some fun listening statistics to celebrate the occasion. Again, this is from Digitalmusicnews dot Com. According to the streamer, sixty nine percent of all streams in the country go to American artists, and American music makes up seventy percent of the Spotify Top fifty chart in the US in twenty twenty five. Unsurprisingly, listeners in the South and the Midwest stream the most music made in America in just the past week. Spotify says Mississippi topp that list, followed by West Virginia, South Dakota, Alabama, and Louisiana.

1:10 The artists driving those numbers quote captured the breadth of the American sound unquote, says Spotify, including chart topper Taylor, Swift, Bad Bunny, Morgan Wallan, Kendrick Lamar, and Post Malone. Of those, Morgan Wallan has an exceptionally strong home market audience, with seventy four percent of his streams coming from US listeners, the highest share among American artists each year, Oh Wait, Sorry, I'm skipping ahead globally, Taylor, Swift, Bad Bunny, Ariana Grande, Billie Eilish, and Eminem are among the most streamed American artists of all time.

1:47 In the past year, people outside the US stream songs featuring at least one American artist seven hundred and seventy six billion times. Each year, Americans play over six hundred and fifty thousand fourth of July themed playlists, featuring tracks like Bruce Springsteen's Born in the USA, Lee Greenwood's God Bless America, Katy Perry's Firework, John Mellencamp's Rock and the USA, and Ray Charles's America. The Beautiful Pop, Hip Hop, Rock, Indian Country, are the American genres most streamed within the country, while pop, hip hop, rock, dance, and indie lead internationally.

2:26 Over that doesn't surprise me. Over the last five years, streams of American country music have grown more than ninety four percent outside the US. That's interesting. That does surprise me. Interestingly, English language tracks only account for eighty six percent of streams in the United States, a number that's steadily dropping in the face of the continued rise of Latin and K pop music. Bad Bunny, who mostly sings in Spanish, has undoubtedly undoubtedly contributed to this number, especially after headlining the Super Bowl halftime show earlier this year.

3:04 So there, you know, just some numbers and stats. Again, the headline means sixty nine percent of Spotify streams in the US come from American artists, according to the latest data.