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\n\tYouTube paid more than $8 billion to the music business in the 12-month period of July 2024 to June 2025, Lyor Cohen<\/strong>, YouTube\u2019s global head of music, said Wednesday (Oct. 22) during a fireside chat with Billboard<\/em> editor-in-chief Hannah Karp<\/strong> at Billboard Latin Music Week.<\/p>\n

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\n\tThe amount the music business receives from YouTube has doubled in just over three years. YouTube paid out $6 billion<\/a> to the music business \u2014 spanning record labels, music publishers and performance rights organizations \u2014 in the 12-month period ended June 2022. The $6 billion payout was a big leap from the $4 billion<\/a> YouTube paid music rights holders over a 12-month period just over a year earlier.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tYouTube doesn\u2019t reveal the number of standalone YouTube Music subscribers, but the company announced in March that it surpassed 125 million global subscribers<\/a> to both YouTube Music and YouTube Premium, an ad-free version of the video service that includes access to YouTube Music. YouTube also offers a less expensive tier, Premium Lite, that provides ad-free viewing for everything except music videos on the YouTube video platform but excludes ad-free listening on YouTube Music. Royalties are also generated from free, ad-supported music video viewers that totaled 2 billion each month.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe platform has extended its dominance from the smartphone to larger screens. Since February, YouTube has topped Nielsen\u2019s rankings of share of Americans\u2019 TV viewing. In August, YouTube\u2019s 13.1% share was followed by Disney at 9.7%, Netflix at 8.7% and NBCUniversal at 7.6%.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tYou can read a full recap of Cohen\u2019s Latin Music Week conversation here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.billboard.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

YouTube paid more than $8 billion to the music business in the 12-month period of July 2024 to June 2025, Lyor Cohen, YouTube\u2019s global head of music, said Wednesday (Oct. 22) during a fireside chat with Billboard editor-in-chief Hannah Karp at Billboard Latin Music Week. Related The amount the music business receives from YouTube has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2109292,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[399292,373367,351953,23808,399421,23844,344776],"class_list":["post-2109291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-billboard-latin-music-week","tag-lyor-cohen","tag-royalties","tag-streaming","tag-streaming-royalties","tag-youtube","tag-youtube-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/YouTube-Paid-8-Billion-to-Music-Industry-in-12-Months.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2109291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2109291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2109291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2109293,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2109291\/revisions\/2109293"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2109292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2109291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2109291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2109291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}