Composers and musicians received more than 34 million euro in rights from the music streaming platform Spotify in 2024. This is 11% more than was the case in 2023. The figures come from Spotify’s Loud & Clear report. 2023 was the first time that country-specific figures on the amount paid in rights in Belgium were released by Spotify.
Spotify paid Belgian musicians and composers more than 34 million euro in rights in 2024
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Loud & Clear is an annual report published by Spotify, with which the streaming service aims to show how much the music world earns from its streaming service and how the rights are distributed among the world’s musicians and composers. The figures from Loud and Clear show that the amount of royalties paid by Spotify to Belgian musicians, producers and composers has almost doubled since 2019.
Around 80% the rights paid in rights for the streaming of music by Belgian artists came from abroad. The amount of music from Belgian artists that was listened to on Spotify by music-lovers outside of Belgium has increased by an average of 37% annually.
In 2024 there were a record 600 million clicks on work by Belgian artists. Globally, Belgian music accounted for 1.7 million hours of listening time.
410 million playlists
Over 410 million playlists that included music from Belgium were compiled on Spotify. Our artists’ work is particularly popular among music-lovers in the USA, by France, Germany, the UK and the Netherlands.
Spotify authors' rights, like those of the Belgian rights association SABAM, tend to go to the most popular artists, such as Angèle and Lost Frequencies. Lost Frequencies 2 numbers, namely ‘Are you with me’ and ‘Where are you now’, that have been streamed more than 2 billion times.