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# Good, Bad & Ugly for Indie Music in Year-End  Report
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/indie-music-in-year-end-report/
- Published: 2025-01-16T17:30:17.000Z
- Updated: 2025-01-16T17:45:55.000Z
- Description: The there is good, bad, and ugly news for indie music in year-end report from Luminate.
- Author: Bruce Houghton
- Tags: DIY Advice & Tips, Indie Music, Music Marketing, DIY musicians, music, Music Business, music industry, Music Tech, musician, musicians, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-01-21 11:15

The there is good, bad, and ugly news for indie music in year-end report from Luminate.

The Luminate 2024 Year-End Music Report is a widely read data-driven look across the entire music ecosystem including the longtail of independent and DIY artists.

For that longtail, the report paints a bleak picture of overwhelming competition and shrinking opportunities.

### Good, Bad & Ugly for Indie Music in Year-End Report

### The Good

**Growing Audience and Income Live:** 90% Superfans and 59% of all music engage with artists by attending an in-person live music performance.

**Direct to consumer sales:** more profitable for artists than streaming – account for 31.9% of first week album activity (sales and streaming).

### The Bad

**99,000 new tracks** are uploaded to Spotify and other streaming services every day. That’s down slightly from 103,500 were uploaded daily in 2023.

**202 million tracks** were competing for fan attention on each DSP by year’s end.

### The Ugly

**93.2 million tracks or 46% were played 10 times or less each last year**. Last year. Spotify and some other streamers pulled tracks with less than 1,000 plays in a 12-month period from its royalty pool.

Read and download the free 2024 Luminate Year-End Music Report [here](https://luminatedata.com/reports/yearend-music-industry-report-2024/?ref=hypebot.com).

***Bruce Houghton*** *is the Founder and Editor of [Hypebot](https://www.hypebot.com/), a Senior Advisor at [Bandsintown](https://www.bandsintown.com/?ref=hypebot.com), a [Berklee College Of Music](https://online.berklee.edu/courses/touring-101?ref=hypebot.com) professor and the founder of the Skyline Artists Agency*.