{"id":8617,"date":"2026-07-24T12:04:22","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T12:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/interspacemusic.com\/blog\/canada-is-the-worlds-9th-biggest-music-market-92-of-its-artists-spotify-money-comes-from-abroad\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T12:06:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T12:06:07","slug":"canada-is-the-worlds-9th-biggest-music-market-92-of-its-artists-spotify-money-comes-from-abroad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/interspacemusic.com\/blog\/canada-is-the-worlds-9th-biggest-music-market-92-of-its-artists-spotify-money-comes-from-abroad\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada Is the World&#8217;s 9th-Biggest Music Market. 92% of Its Artists&#8217; Spotify Money Comes From Abroad."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Canada just posted its eleventh straight year of recorded-music growth. The market reached CAD$957.9 million in 2025, up 5.6%, according to the IFPI Global Music Report 2026. IFPI means the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, the body that counts the global business.<\/p>\n<p>That ranks Canada ninth in the world, a notch below 2024 even as revenue rose, because bigger markets are growing faster.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Canada Is the World\u2019s 9th-Biggest Music Market. 92% of Its Artists\u2019 Spotify Money Comes From Abroad.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/M2lX9XESvDE\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen style=\"width:100%;max-width:100%;aspect-ratio:16\/9;height:auto;border:0;border-radius:12px\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>But the headline that matters for anyone selling music out of Toronto, Montreal or Vancouver is not the CAD$957.9 million. It is this: 92% of Canadian artists&#8217; Spotify royalties came from listeners outside Canada.<\/p>\n<h2>The market grew, but the money left<\/h2>\n<p>Streaming did the heavy lifting at home. Spotify&#8217;s Loud &amp; Clear report for Canada put 2025 royalties to Canadian artists at more than CAD$544 million, a 19% jump year over year.<\/p>\n<p>IFPI logged Canadian streaming revenue of CAD$747 million, up 4.5%, with ad-supported audio and video up 9.4% and physical formats up a striking 15.9%.<\/p>\n<p>The catch is where the earnings originate. Of that CAD$544 million Canadian artists banked on Spotify, more than nine in every ten dollars was paid by someone abroad, mostly in the United States, then Europe and Latin America.<\/p>\n<h2>92% is a passport, not a border<\/h2>\n<p>Spotify&#8217;s Canada figures break down like a export report, not a domestic one:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Canadian artists were discovered internationally more than 3.56 billion times in 2025.<\/li>\n<li>More than 370 acts earned CAD$100,000 or more; over 100 cleared CAD$500,000; nearly 70 passed CAD$1 million.<\/li>\n<li>French-language music royalties rose 38% globally since 2023, meaning Quebec&#8217;s export lane is widening too.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is the same pattern InterSpace Daily <a href=\"https:\/\/interspacemusic.com\/blog\/three-quarters-of-british-artists-spotify-money-comes-from-abroad-the-uk-share-of-global-streams-is-shrinking\/\">tracked in the UK<\/a>, where roughly three quarters of British artists&#8217; Spotify money also comes from abroad. Mature English-language markets do not grow at home. They grow by being heard everywhere else.<\/p>\n<h2>What the CRTC levy actually covers<\/h2>\n<p>Canada&#8217;s policy answer to all this is the Online Streaming Act, the 2023 law that updated the Broadcasting Act. It is enforced by the CRTC, which means the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission.<\/p>\n<p>In May 2026 the CRTC issued Broadcasting Regulatory Policy 2026-96, tripling the base contribution large streaming platforms owe to Canadian content from 5% to 15% of their Canadian revenue.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the nuance most coverage skips. The 15% rate targets audiovisual services such as Netflix, Disney+ and Apple TV+. Spotify, Apple Music and YouTube Music classify as audio-only, and Spotify has stated the May ruling does not currently apply to it. Audio DSPs sit under a separate contribution still under review, and the original 5% audio levy is paused pending a Federal Court of Appeal challenge from Spotify, Apple and Amazon. DSP means digital service provider.<\/p>\n<p>The United States has flagged the whole regime as a trade irritant ahead of the 2026 review of CUSMA, the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement. In other words, the lever meant to fund domestic music is stuck in court and does not cleanly touch the platforms where Canadian artists actually earn.<\/p>\n<h2>What it means for an independent Canadian artist<\/h2>\n<p>The takeaway is not that CanCon rules are pointless. It is that <a href=\"https:\/\/interspacemusic.com\/blog\/ex-u-s-streaming-grew-11-8-in-h1-2026-the-u-s-managed-4-8-and-the-growth-is-where-distributors-barely-deliver\/\">the growth is offshore<\/a>, and a distribution strategy built around domestic quotas is aiming at the smaller pool.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If 92% of the money is foreign, your release has to be delivered cleanly to every market, not just the ones with local editorial teams.<\/li>\n<li>Francophone acts are exporting too, so metadata language tags and territory-level reporting matter as much for a Montreal artist as a Toronto one.<\/li>\n<li>The threshold jumps happen when discovery plays convert abroad, which rewards distributors that hit the widest set of DSPs and report royalties at territory level.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>InterSpace Distribution delivers DDEX-native to the full DSP map and reports earnings by territory, so a Canadian artist can see the US, French and Latin American splits that make up the real 92%. DDEX means Digital Data Exchange, the standard that keeps credits and payments attached to a release. For labels and aggregators, ToneGrid adds white-label delivery with anti-fraud and KYC built in.<\/p>\n<p>Canada&#8217;s chart says the country is a top-ten market. Canada&#8217;s royalty statements say its artists are an export business. The distributor you pick should be built for the second fact.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canada is the world&#8217;s ninth-biggest music market, worth CAD$957.9 million in 2025, yet 92% of Canadian artists&#8217; Spotify royalties come from abroad. 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