Report: Australia Not Best Place To Start?

Australia may not be the best place to start a music career. That’s based on figures in a report by global data insights company Chartmetric which studied the chart and streaming profiles of 9.7 million artists through 2023.

The most amount of emerging artists were from the US, Brazil, Mexico and South Korea.

Those creating the most new artist profiles came from the US, Brazil, India, Germany, Mexico and the UK.

Gender Imbalance

Women dominated the charts but there was a “significant gender imbalance within the solo artist category”. A substantial 77% used he/him pronouns, 18% used she/her and 5% they/them.

Latin music continued to lead emerging artists came, followed by K-Pop, Indian music, African (Afrobeats and amapiano), and J-pop.

Tracking 123 genres, Chartmetric data showed hip-hop and rap accounted for the largest share of artists releasing music, followed by pop and then dance and electronic music.