Medium “Music” tag statistics
How busy the Music tag is, how stories perform there and where they get published. Competition is moderate, and the tag is mixed for new writers.
Updated Oct 20, 2026 · based on 780 stories from the last 14 days
Busier than 36% of 73 tracked tags
21% of top stories are by writers with <100 followers
Competition and chances for new writers
With roughly 56 stories a day, Music is busier than 36% of the 73 tags we track. Its reader-to-story ratio (78,386 followers per daily story) is higher than 82% of tags — more readers per story than average.
63% of stories here come from writers with fewer than 100 followers, and they account for 21% of the best-performing quarter of stories. 25% of stories are behind the paywall (Partner Program), and the average story takes 4.8 minutes to read.
Publications that publish Music stories
| Publication | Followers | Music stories (last 14d) |
|---|---|---|
| The Riff | 49K | 40 |
| Rock n’ Heavy | 9.4K | 24 |
| The Mixtape Memoirs | 4.6K | 14 |
| PubBeat | 358 | 12 |
| Culture Beat | 136 | 9 |
| New Wonder | 4 | 6 |
| ILLUMINATION | 327K | 6 |
| Hot List Energy | 135 | 6 |
| The Album Cafe | 162 | 5 |
| the Challenged | 2.3K | 4 |
Top Music stories right now
- 15 One-Hit Wonders You Don’t Hear Anymore
- Methodist Central Hall
- The Night The Sound Of Silence Made 65,000 People Stand Still
- SWEET SUMMER GRAPES MAKE WARM WINTER WINE
- 10 Albums GenX Bought Twice (First on Cassette, Then on CD)
- ALL THINGS CHANGE
- When the Universe Cracked Open
- Taking aim at errant drug use.
- The Chord That Changed My Destiny: A Love Letter to Music
- 99 Red Balloons and Other Numbers I’ve Decided to Question
FAQ
- How many stories are published in the Music tag on Medium?
- About 56 per day (389 per week), based on 780 stories published in the 14-day window before our last scan. The tag has 255,662 stories in total.
- Is the Music tag competitive?
- Competition is moderate: it is busier than 36% of the 73 tags we track. There are about 78,386 tag followers per new daily story.
- Can new writers succeed in Music?
- 21% of the top-performing stories (top 25% by claps) came from writers with fewer than 100 followers, so the tag is mixed for newcomers. 63% of all stories in the tag come from such writers.