Tag: philippines

The Philippines is outside the world’s top 40 markets for recorded music. But Filipinos’ incredible appetite for streaming is making it a very important market for new music.

An interview with Gautam Talwar, Spotify’s new managing director for south-east Asia, has yielded some interesting stats about the popularity of ‘OPM’ music from the Philippines. OPM? That’s ‘original Pilipino music’...

The Philippines, like many individual markets in Southeast Asia, is something of an enigma as far as the Western music industry is concerned. However, a promising digital market is being fueled by a young population

Earlier this year we wrote about music-analytics firm Chartmetrics’ theory of ‘trigger cities’ capable of propelling tracks to become global hits. Now the company has published a second in its series of blog posts focusing...

OPM stands for Original Pilipino Music – pop songs from the Philippines stretching back several decades. A popular genre on Spotify: in fact, OPM will soon cross the milestone of 10bn streams, according to the company....

The Philippines is a digital contradiction – social media use is rife but that’s on the backbone of poor digital infrastructure while music-streaming usage is on a par with Sweden yet per-capita music income is low. But...

Compilations label Heard Well is topping the charts in south-east Asia with its latest release ‘Litunes’. As with its other albums, this one is curated by an online influencer. Or rather, a pair of them: brother-and-sister...