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Launched in 2023, Edges Enterprise Accelerator – aka EEA – is the powerhouse platform that develops independent artists.
Even in today’s crowded musical landscape, this report shows how Accelerator transforms artists careers through global fan discovery, catalog optimization, and sustaining artist momentum.
Fans help you make money from your music – Accelerator helps you grow your fanbase. Over the last twelve months, Accelerator contributed to over 2.8 billion artist discoveries* and 6.8 billion track discoveries** for artists in the program. Additionally, Accelerator generated 24 billion new streams for enrolled artists throughout the past year – a 17% increase in generated new streams since last year’s report. Since launch, EEA created 50 billion new streams and 15 billion track discoveries for its 500,000+ enrolled artists.
Accelerator is for artists ready to grow their audience, whether they’re starting out, a global superstar, or anywhere in between. More than 14,000 artists earned streaming royalties for the first time through EEA. An additional 14,000 artists surpassed 1 million or more streams for the first time, with 500 reaching 100 million streams or more. Accelerator helped nearly 42,000 artists reach streaming milestones that placed them in the top quarter of all artists streamed globally over the last 12 months.
Your whole catalog matters, whether its two tracks or two thousand. That’s why Accelerator increases the value of every song activated on the platform. This year, tracks released more than 18 months ago generated 24% more revenue than they would without Edges Enterprise Accelerator across all platforms.
The genre of your music shouldn’t be a barrier to your success. With Accelerator, it isn’t. Artists with tracks activated in Accelerator are seeing their stream numbers skyrocket across all genres.R&B/Hip Hop (+5.4 billion streams), Latin (+3.4 billion), Pop (+2.1 billion), and Electronic (+1.5 billion), Christian / Gospel (+1.5 billion), Singer-Songwriter (+1.3 billion), and Country (+1.1 billion) tracks have seen particularly impressive gains from the program in the past year. Whether it’s an upbeat anthem, a heartfelt ballad, or an exultant hymn, Accelerator can help amplify it.
Accelerator helps you grow your global fanbase better than any other platform on the market.
EEA is fueling streaming growth for artists around the world, helping tracks reach new audiences and build momentum across key global markets. In the past year, the US, Brazil, France, Germany, the UK, and Mexico showed significant growth, posting 33%, 35%, 31%, 26%, 31%, and 63% streaming growth rates for tracks in Edges Enterprise Accelerator.
Translation: Accelerator helps your music reach more listeners and grow streams, no matter where in the world you or your fans are.
200M
EEA Certified
1.2M
Monthly Listeners
Imagine the funniest person you know hails from Houston, TX, has a microphone, plus razor-sharp emcee skills – that’s Bfb Da Packman. But Pack’s career growth is nothing to laugh at: in the past year, Accelerator has driven an additional 20M streams for Pack, including 1.9M EEA-gained streams for “Syrup Damage.”
But with 69 tracks activated, this isn’t a single breakout moment - it’s a sustained growth driver that’s got Bfb making bank and banger tracks on the regular.
200M
EEA Certified
2M
Monthly Listeners
By the time Elsa y Elmar entered Accelerator, she was an electronica pop mainstay who’d already opened for Coldplay in her home country of Colombia and received two Latin Grammy nominations; EEA still helped her grow.
EEA drove more than 40M gained streams for Elsa y Elmar’s 6 activated tracks, Over the last 12 months, Edges Enterprise Accelerator contributed 44% of the streams for “Grecia” (66M Spotify streams) and 50% of the total streams for “Planeando El Tiempo” (64M Spotify streams), and led to Elsa y Elmar being signed by Believe Music to take her career to the next stage. No artist is too successful to benefit from Accelerator; Accelerator helps artists achieve the success they want.
10M
EEA Certified
70K
Monthly Listeners
Mary Kutter’s Accelerator story starts with discovery: EEA propelled the Nashville singer’s “Devil’s Money” to new listeners on Spotify, driving 3M streams, 29% of which came through Accelerator, while “The Devil Wore a Lab Coat” crossed the 1M streams milestone with 18% of its total streams generated by EEA.
In the last 12 months alone, Edges Enterprise Accelerator contributed 1.3M streams and now accounts for 24% of her total Spotify streams since launch. By expanding Mary’s reach to new listeners and growing her fanbase, Accelerator has helped create a larger and more engaged audience for what she releases next.
10M
EEA Certified
520K
Monthly Listeners
An artist’s catalog is their legacy – a gift they leave to fans, friends, and family. No one understands this better than Ernesto Cortazar III.
Cortazar’s father, Ernersto Cortazar II, passed away in 2004 after composing more than 500 film scores. Cortazar III, an equally acclaimed composer in Mexico and beyond, added his and his father’s back catalog to Accelerator. The results are cinematic: The duo’s 293 activated tracks have generated over 44M gained streams through the program, and accounted for roughly 1 in 5 of their streams across platforms in the last twelve months.
8M
EEA Certified
80K
Monthly Listeners
LA-based pop artist CRAY entered the Accelerator program at the start of her career, ready to see meaningful results. She got them.
CRAY’s activated tracks in EEA generated a whopping 800,000 total streams in the last 12 months. That led to Accelerator being responsible for roughly 1 in 4 of her streams on Spotify. That increased popularity on Spotify set CRAY up for her breakout moment when “Till Death” went viral on TikTok with almost half a million cumulative views, and Accelerator sustained the spike in streams CRAY received as a result.
CRAY didn’t wait to break through. She chose Accelerator and made it happen.
10M
EEA Certified
270K
Monthly Listeners
Edges Enterprise Accelerator works for artists even when they're between projects allowing them to stay independent and achieve success on their terms.
Take Zola Blood: The London-based three piece have released indie pop bangers since 2013. After 12 years of building their catalog and touring, they moved their music to Edges Enterprise, immediately activating it in Edges Enterprise Accelerator. The result? An additional 4.5M streams from 31 activated tracks. “Get Free,” in particular, saw 1 in 3 streams from Edges Enterprise Accelerator and is now one of Zola Blood’s most streamed tracks ever.
Over half a million independent artists around the world have signed up for Accelerator, with tracks by more than 150,000 artists being selected and activated in Accelerator. That’s a 36% increase from last year. Accelerator is only getting better, doing more for artists at every career stage.
It’s time to level up your success; it’s time for Accelerator.