{"id":6972,"slug":"loud-and-clear-concentration-floor-2025","title":"Minimum share of Spotify’s 2025 industry royalties held by its own disclosed top tiers","source":"Computed from spotify-loud-and-clear-tiers-2025 (Spotify's Loud & Clear 2026 report, covering calendar year 2025)","source_url":"https:\/\/newsroom.spotify.com\/2026-03-11\/loud-and-clear-music-economics-highlights\/","source_type":"computed","method":"Spotify's Loud & Clear report states that 80 recording artists worldwide earned $10,000,000 or more in royalties in 2025, and that 1,500 earned $1,000,000 or more, against a total of $11,000,000,000 paid to the music industry that year. floor_total_usd multiplies each tier's artist count by its own threshold_usd, which is the minimum any artist in that tier could have earned, since Spotify discloses the tier cutoff, not the artists' actual earnings. floor_share_of_industry_pct divides that floor by the $11bn total. Because every artist in a tier earns at least the threshold and most earn more, these are floors on industry concentration, not estimates of it: the true share held by each tier is higher than stated here, by an unknown amount.","unit":"usd_and_pct","license":"Afrobeats Wire's compilation and analysis are licensed CC BY 4.0. Rights in the underlying source data remain with the source named above.","confidence":"high","retrieved":"2026-10-09 01:50:31","n":2,"first_party":0,"columns":[{"key":"tier","label":"Tier","type":"text"},{"key":"artist_count","label":"Artists in tier","type":"number"},{"key":"threshold_usd","label":"Tier threshold, USD","type":"number"},{"key":"floor_total_usd","label":"Floor total for tier, USD","type":"number"},{"key":"floor_share_of_industry_pct","label":"Minimum share of $11bn industry total, %","type":"number"}],"rows":[{"tier":"Earned $10,000,000 or more in 2025","artist_count":80,"threshold_usd":10000000,"floor_total_usd":800000000,"floor_share_of_industry_pct":7.27},{"tier":"Earned $1,000,000 or more in 2025","artist_count":1500,"threshold_usd":1000000,"floor_total_usd":1500000000,"floor_share_of_industry_pct":13.64}]}