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Spotify’s Loud & Clear initiative, which reveals data about stream counts and royalty payouts on the platform, has unveiled 2024 data for Italy. Royalties generated by Italian artists on Spotify jumped 20% year-on-year in 2024, to nearly EUR €150 million, or around USD $162 million at the average exchange rate for last year. Italian-language music...

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Connie Francis, 87, was surprised to learn her 1962 song “Pretty Little Baby” is having a massive resurgence, going viral on TikTok—even if she had to ask what exactly that meant. Sixty-three years after she recorded the track, it’s become a huge hit on TikTok, where even celebrities like Kylie Jenner have recorded lip-sync videos. Overall, “Pretty...

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Ciao from Rome!   Dear friends, I would like to inform you that the audio version of We the ItaliaNews, the podcast born two years ago and which is now a real news broadcast followed on various platforms and social media by more than 1000 followers for each episode, is also on Spotify. Every Monday and Thursday there is a new episode, which tells y...

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