BTS and K-Pop have fueled a 10 percent surge in CD sales so far this year.
notably showed out in droves at stores like Target and Walmart to buy their favorite artists’ albums. The burst in interest was most notable with CD sales, which are up 16 percent this year; K-pop albums accounted for nearly 10 percent of that figure.sold 263,000 CDs.
The report mentions that about half of Gen Z and millennial consumers who buy CDs do not own a CD player, showing that compact discs are now affordable novelties to some. Coupled with streaming numbers for K-pop and the Latin explosion in recent years, the dominance of English-language music is on the decline.
Anglophone music now represents only 87.1 percent of streams with Spanish songs accounting for 9.4 percent and Korean music holding steady from fiscal year 2025 at 1.1 percent. Bad Bunny’salone made South Korea the world’s third largest music exporter behind the U.S. and U.K. respectively.
“Casual U.S. listenership of Latin music has hit an all-time high, with 54% — or more than one in two music listeners — now reporting that they engage with the genre,” Jaime Marconette, Luminate’s vice president of music insights and industry relations, told. “Latin music’s cultural footprint is rapidly widening far beyond its traditional core base into the broader American mainstream.
”Indiana Prosecutors Aghast at Phish Fans Who Showed Up to Concerts With DrugsOther metrics of note in the report include the global on-demand audio streams are up 9.8 percent overall. R&B and hip-hop continue to dominate U.S. audio streams overall but the genres’ stronghold on the chart is slipping as streams of dance and electronic music climb.
Additionally, Latin music, fueled by Bad Bunny’s jaw-dropping Super Bowl halftime show, and country, fueled by Morgan Wallen, are both up. Wallen’sSixty percent of Gen Z listeners now listen to music from the 1990s or earlier, according to Luminate, which somewhat explains why most of the rock music streamed is 75 percent “deep catalog” ‘Moana’ Cast Guide: Every Live-Action Character vs. the Original Animation David and Larry Ellison Sued by Paramount Investor Alleging ‘Illegal’ Side Deal With Donald Trump to Secure U.S. Approval for Warner Bros. Takeover
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