{"id":7531,"date":"2026-07-15T16:03:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T16:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/interspacemusic.com\/blog\/colombian-music-115m-spotify-2025-over-90-percent-came-from-abroad\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T16:07:03","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T16:07:03","slug":"colombian-music-115m-spotify-2025-over-90-percent-came-from-abroad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/interspacemusic.com\/blog\/colombian-music-115m-spotify-2025-over-90-percent-came-from-abroad\/","title":{"rendered":"Colombian Music Made $115M on Spotify in 2025. Over 90% Came From Abroad."},"content":{"rendered":"

Colombian music generated more than US$115 million in royalties on Spotify in 2025, according to figures reported by Colombia One<\/a>. That is double what the country’s catalog earned four years earlier.<\/p>\n

Here is the number that should reorganize how a Medellin artist thinks about release day. More than 90% of those royalties came from listeners outside Colombia.<\/p>\n

The audience paying Colombian artists lives in Mexico, the United States, Spain, Argentina and Chile. Bogota and Medellin are the studio, not the market.<\/p>\n

The domestic market is smaller than the export take<\/h2>\n

Colombia’s recorded music market crossed US$100 million for the first time in 2025, reaching US$105.2 million with annual growth of 17.9%, per Colombia One’s reading of the local trade data.<\/p>\n

Sit those two numbers next to each other. The Spotify royalties earned by Colombian music, US$115 million, are larger than the entire domestic recorded market, US$105.2 million. That gap is the export economy, and it is where the real income lives.<\/p>\n

This is not a Colombia-only pattern. IFPI, which stands for the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, reported that Latin America was the fastest-growing region in 2025, up 17.1%, its 16th consecutive year of growth, in its Global Music Report 2026<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Urban music is the engine, and it travels<\/h2>\n

Reggaeton, Latin trap and urban fusion drove the numbers. The headliners are familiar: Karol G, Feid, J Balvin, Shakira.<\/p>\n

The interesting part is underneath them.<\/p>\n