IMPALA's 2026 100 Artists to Watch list showcases Europe's most promising future stars of independent labels. From Finland, Louna0nline, OLGA, Pearly Drops and Us made the list.

For the 43rd time, Emma Gala honoured the most successful artists and music professionals of the past year. The winners of the night were Ares and emma & matilda, who took home three Emmas each.

For Harri Kuusijärvi, making art is the noblest and the best thing he knows. It is reaching toward goodness, which is otherwise hard to find.

This year marks 100 years since jazz symbolically arrived in Finland with the ship Andania. The year 2026 is therefore a historic anniversary for Finnish jazz: the Jazz Finland 100 celebration year. The arrival of jazz had a significant impact on the development of Finnish popular music and culture.

Finland’s recorded music market continues to grow, according to the “Finnish Recorded Music Market 2025” report published by Musiikkituottajat IFPI Finland. The report is based on the international Global Music Report.

Gramex paid out around €4.5 million in the spring settlement of 24.3.2026. Around 9 300 domestic music performers and producers represented by Gramex received compensation.

When Gramex and JVG launched the Value of Music campaign at the end of October 2025, few could have anticipated the phenomenon it would create: the campaign reached a total of 2.37 million people on social media alone. Yet the conversation about the value of music continues, even though the campaign has now been successfully concluded.

The gender distribution in the Finnish music industry is still changing very slowly. The proportion of women among music creators, performers and producers only grows in small increments from year to year. However, the distributions paid to women are increasing more than the proportion of women. Although the differences are still large, both Teosto’s and Gramex’s statistics show that women’s visibility and earnings in the Finnish music industry are increasing.

The artist Vahtera, who is currently working on her third album, believes that the joy of making music stays alive when you are surrounded by good people.

The nominees for the 2026 Teosto Prize were announced on Tuesday, 10 February 2026 at Musiikin Satama in Espoo. Seven Finnish compositions are in the running for the award, selected from domestic works that were published or premiered during the previous year.