The standard number is 100,000 new tracks daily.
How many new songs are written each year? There are an estimated 1.6 million new songs written each year. This number has been relatively steady over the past few years, despite the changing landscape of the music industry.
Each day, an average of 98,500 new tracks are uploaded to the streaming music services. Let me repeat: That's each day. Luminate, the company that tracks music consumption, gives us this graphic. Note, though, that only 4% of these daily uploads (an average of 3,940 songs) come from major record labels.
That 120,000 track-per-day average is up from the 93,400 average tracks uploaded per day in all of 2022, according to Luminate. Luminate estimates that there were 34.1 million tracks uploaded to music streaming services in 2022, which was up 12% YoY from 30.5 million tracks across the whole of 2021.
KEY TAKEAWAYS: It's impossible to say how many songs there are worldwide, but my educated guess would be between 150 and 200 million songs. Spotify and Apple Music have 100 million songs in their catalogs, which does not include songs unavailable for streaming.
“Hurrian Hymn No. 6” is considered the world's earliest melody, but the oldest musical composition to have survived in its entirety is a first century A.D. Greek tune known as the “Seikilos Epitaph.” The song was found engraved on an ancient marble column used to mark a woman's gravesite in Turkey.
1. 'Blinding Lights' by The Weeknd (3.59 billion streams)
Feeling like you're having a hard time keeping up with all the new music that's coming out? You're not alone — even if you are, say, a computer and not just a mere mortal. Stats now show that an average of more than 100,000 songs are being uploaded to digital service providers every day.
A good rule of thumb is 15 songs per hour. A typical wedding reception will see about 3 hours of dancing after dinner and all the formalities are over. That is just 45 songs.
Although the number of possible melodies is finite, it is so very large that for all practical purposes, the supply of new tunes is infinite.
But why is this? Well, it stems from the fact that when 78 rpm were the standard records for pop music there was a limit to what could be put onto a shellac record. Initially these brittle discs were limited to about 2 minutes playing time, by the 1920s 10” records were virtually all 3 minutes or under.
There's an interesting history behind why pop songs tend to be 3-to-4 minutes in length, and it has to do with the nature of the medium: typically, a 10-inch record spinning 78 times per minute, as you would have had when rock & roll was in its infancy.
In general, there are over 80 million songs on Spotify. Launched in 2008, you can discover, manage, and share more than eighty million tracks, including over four million podcast titles, without charge.
Most recorded artist in music history - Asha Bhosle
In 1974, the Guinness Book of Records had older sister Mangeshkar (now 87) down as recording the most songs in history - a staggering 25,000.
A three-minute song would usually be around 80 to 90 bars in total depending on the BPM. Taking into account all types of music, the 'average' song has 108 beats per minute. This then equals around 324 beats for three minutes and 81 beats in a song of this length.
A single is considered 1-3 songs that are each less than 10 minutes in length. When releasing a single, don't add “- Single” to your track or album titles.
Frankie Laine – I Believe (18 weeks)
Famous composer Mantovani then claimed the Number 1 spot, before Frankie gave him a nudge and racked up an additional three weeks. Only five songs in history have scored three separate stints at the top!
"Old Town Road" holds the record for the longest stretch at No. 1 with 19 weeks. It also became the fastest song in history to be certified diamond.
As of 2020, 8 million Australians were using Spotify.
1 single was three minutes 42 seconds – today it's down to 3:16. UCLA have tracked the reduction in song length back even further to 1990, when the average length of a song was 4:19. By 2020, this was down to 3:17.
The benefits of a Friday release include the ability to maximize sales and chart performance over the weekend (if that matters to you), as well as a coordinated global release strategy that can lead to increased exposure and marketing opportunities.
The current number one pop song on iTunes right now is Flowers by Miley Cyrus. Related Charts: Top new pop songs, iTunes top pop albums, and iTunes top 100 songs.
English singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran is the most-followed artist on Spotify. American singer-songwriter Ariana Grande is the most-followed female artist on Spotify.
The 1980s group, 2 Live Crew, made everyone sound like they were just writing the encore for the school play and Lil' Jon (see below) holds a Guinness World Record with 295 cusses in just one song: 2004's "Real N----- Roll Call," with Ice Cube.