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Tencent Music lets AI songs onto QQ Music, but puts fully AI tracks on a different royalty model
Tencent Music says more than 10 million people use its AI music production platform, and its tools can publish a generated song to QQ Music in one click. On its Q4 call it said songs made wholly by AI get a different royalty-sharing model, while AI-assisted songs sung by humans stay on the traditional one. We haven't seen a big Western streaming service draw that line in public.
12 May 2026AIvia Tencent Music Entertainment Group
Brazil and Mexico on Spotify, by the royalty numbers: R$2bn, MX$8.2bn and who actually gets paid
Spotify says Brazilian artists generated about R$2bn on the service in 2025 and Mexican artists about MX$8.2bn. Both numbers are real growth, but they measure money paid to rights holders, not to artists, and Mexico's headline "more than half from abroad" is close to Spotify's own global average.
11 May 2026Industryvia Spotify Newsroom
Deezer turned a profit. Here is how its artist-centric model moves the money, and who it moves it from
Deezer reported €8.5 million of net income for 2025, which it calls its first positive net income, and credits its artist-centric payment model among its strengths. The model weights streams by who the artist is and how the fan found the track. We explain the rules, who gains and who loses, and why the profit says little about whether artists are better off.
18 Mar 2026Industryvia Deezer Newsroom
The 2026 global music map: Latin America +17.1%, MENA and sub-Saharan Africa +15.2%, the US +3.5%
IFPI says recorded music revenue grew 6.4% to US$31.7bn in 2025, with growth in every region and Latin America fastest at 17.1%. The percentages point to the Global South, but the dollars still mostly come from the US, Canada and Europe, and the fast-growing regions grew more slowly than a year earlier. Here is how an independent artist should read the map.
18 Mar 2026Industryvia IFPI
Spotify's ₦60bn for Nigerian artists, and the per-stream gap behind it
Spotify says Nigerian artists generated more than ₦60bn on its service in 2025 from 30.3 billion streams. The total is real, but roughly ₦2 a stream and a Premium price near $1 a month suggest much of that money comes from listeners abroad. Spotify's plan is to sign up more payers, not raise prices.
16 Mar 2026Industryvia TechCabal

Tencent Music lets AI songs onto QQ Music, but puts fully AI tracks on a different royalty model

Brazil and Mexico on Spotify, by the royalty numbers: R$2bn, MX$8.2bn and who actually gets paid

Deezer turned a profit. Here is how its artist-centric model moves the money, and who it moves it from

The 2026 global music map: Latin America +17.1%, MENA and sub-Saharan Africa +15.2%, the US +3.5%

Spotify's ₦60bn for Nigerian artists, and the per-stream gap behind it

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