Latin Music Revenue Reaches Nearly $500 Million at Mid-Year 2025, RIAA Reports

Latin euphony recorded $490.3 cardinal successful gross successful the archetypal fractional of 2025, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) announced successful its mid-year Latin euphony study released Friday (Oct. 17). According to the analysis, that fig represents 6% maturation implicit past year’s mid-year’s wholesale value, outpacing maturation for the aforesaid play crossed the wide U.S. market.

Earlier this year, the RIAA began reporting figures connected a wholesale basis, which makes it hard to comparison year-over-year show for metrics different than wide wholesale gross (previous year’s reports utilized retail worth arsenic the gross metric). Still, the study states that, erstwhile again, streaming dominated implicit each different formats, providing 98% of full revenue, arsenic Latin euphony delivered $271.1 cardinal successful paid subscription revenue. Furthermore, Latin euphony gross is up for the 12th consecutive twelvemonth astatine mid-year, and Latin euphony represents 8.8% of full recorded euphony gross successful the U.S.

“Latin euphony successful the U.S. continues to summation popularity and make accrued worth acknowledgment to the unthinkable artists whose euphony connects crossed connection and geographical barriers with enactment from originative statement partnerships,” Matt Bass, RIAA’s vp of research, said successful a statement. “At a mid-year precocious approaching fractional a cardinal dollars, Latin euphony continues to gain caller listeners and invigorate existing fans. With streaming offering much entree than ever to bequest voices and adjacent procreation icons defining today’s culture, Latin has go the second-fastest increasing genre successful America.”

A fig of Latin acts helped usher successful different grounds mid-year for Latin euphony revenue, including Fuerza Regida, whose 111XPANTIA reached No. 2 connected the Billboard 200 — the highest-charting Mexican euphony medium ever. Bad Bunny has besides been a cardinal fig this twelvemonth with Debí Tirar Más Fotos, which ruled the Billboard 200 for 4 weeks and has truthful acold spent 37 weeks atop Billboard‘s Top Latin Albums illustration pursuing the LP’s merchandise successful January. Latin music’s maturation implicit the past fewer years has besides been driven by the occurrence of Karol G, Peso Pluma, Tito Double P and Rauw Alejandro, each top finalists astatine this year’s Billboard Latin Music Awards.

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