Spotify empowering Pinoy creators
SOUNDS FAMILIAR - Baby A. Gil - The Philippine Star October 18, 2024 | 12:00am Spotify empowering Pinoy creators Ben&Ben, one of the headliners at the ‘Spotify Lounge: Philippines Edition,’ is named Spotify’s inaugural decade definer. STAR / File ADVERTISEMENT I always get a big kick out of checking the daily Spotify hit list. I’ve been covering the music business for many years and one of my dreams back then was to find a local chart dominated by Filipino artists, not foreign acts. This finally happened about five or six years ago when I saw Moira dela Torre, the harana boys Zack Tabudlo, Arthur Nery and others leaving the foreigners on the wayside. And with Dionela, Bini and Hev Abi on top these days, it has been so ever since. Gustav Back, managing director for Spotify SEA (Southeast Asia), said that the present ratio between foreign and local acts as far as streaming is concerned is 75 percent to 25 percent in favor of the Pinoys. That is quite a number not to mention the fac