Over 50 million songs got zero streams in 2025 – and other eye-popping data on music streaming
Your weekly guide to the music biz and how it all works – and this week, Stu’s Big Number is also the Big Story – and here are some mind-boggling facts to bewilder your friends with:
There are now 253 million tracks available on streaming sites
… and 55.3 million songs were not played even once in 2025
(And, over 100 million songs have been played less than 100 times)
Over 50 million songs - 20% of all the music available on streaming – were uploaded in 2025
106,000 songs were uploaded each day - that’s 7,000 hours of music or 10,000 albums per day
Naturally, this gave Steve and Stu a lot to…
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