Report measures streaming decline of local artists in Australia
Spotify put out a report this week offering lots of positive stats on how Australian music performs on its service in that country.
However, another new report – published this morning by think-tank The Australia Institute – begs to differ. And it’s co-written by the former chief economist at Spotify, Will Page.
The report studied the top 10,000 artists being streamed in Australia between 2021 and 2024, to analyse how many of them were local and how many international.
“The presence of Australian artists has been declining, both in terms of the total number of artists, and the number of streams. In 2021, 932 in every 10,000 artists streamed were Australian, but by 2024 that had fallen to just 773 in 10,000,” is its main finding.
“Over the same period, streamshare – the number ...










