How many songs are published? Answering how many books in the world is easy - pops up right away - around 130,000,000 books, although that's an estimate. Books have always been at the centre of our intellectual universe.
Songs, it turns out, are in many libraries - streaming service libraries. For example, Gracenote is a company that stores and organizes songs. It says it has 2,451 genres, 438 style descriptors, 480 languages. It has a database of approximately 100 million tracks. But it isn't the biggest - there is Discogs and their database is 151,200,000 tracks. There are 40,000 tracks per day added to Spotify.
Here are the streaming music service library sizes are: Apple - 45 million tracks Spotify - 35 million tracks Amazon Prime Music - 16 million tracks Google Play - 40 million tracks Pandora - 30 million tracks Tidal - 50 million tracks
We could go to the Choral Public Domain Library, founded in 1998. It is focused on choral and vocal music in the public domain. There are 34,152 scores by more than 3,419 composers.
Sometimes Quora has the answer. It has interesting answers that show creative perspectives, but it has silly posts too. I guess these guys are having fun and making money. So who should complain? Here are some of their posts:
Worldwide, the average life expectancy at birth is 70.5 which means you will have 25,732.5 (70.5 × 365 ) days to enjoy your songs, which means you will have 617,580 (25,732.5 × 24) hours to enjoy all your songs, which means you will have 37,054,800 (617,580 × 60) minutes to enjoy your songs. assuming a song to be average of 4 minutes totally, you will have the exact time to hear 92,63,700 songs in your lifetime. so friend i cannot say exactly how many songs are there in this world but what seems more relevant question is to how many songs can you hear in your lifetime.
I can't say the exact digits. But Lets think like this. There is roughly 7,000,000,000 people in Earth. (just googled). So lets think 5% are musicians (assumption). Then the answer is 350,000,000. Now lets assume they have release an avg of 250 songs. Then it would be 87,500,000,000 songs. Could be more and I only considered the recent time period.
According to what I was able to research, as of 1/5/2011 there have been 623,162,727 songs written with a new song being written every two minutes. So plus that number every 2 minutes that passes by...
We move to Daylight Savings at 3:00am on March 8th, so we're celebrating spring with some tulips today.
