US music industry group the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) released its figures for music revenue in 2020. Despite the pandemic, ongoing trends from
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RIAA: Recorded music revenue grew 5.6% in first half of 2020; vinyl 62% of all physical media sales
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has released its twice a year report on US music industry sales. (A PDF version is available here.)
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Streaming made up 75% of US music industry revenue in 2018
Streaming services have become firmly cemented as the main source of revenue for the US music industry. The RIAA reports that 2018 saw a record
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Streaming made up two-thirds of US music revenue in 2017
Despite writing earlier this week about compact discs’ waning popularity, there’s some good news to report in the US music industry. The Record Industry Association
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What’s the future of compact discs?
Since their debut in 1982 (though they first went on sale in the United States in 1983), compact discs became the dominant format for music
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Music streaming revenue tops physical media sales for the first time
Music industry association the RIAA has released its mid-2015 music sales statistics. For the first time, sales of streaming media services (like Spotify, Google Play
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Streaming music subscriptions now outsell CDs
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), the music industry’s organizational arm, has released a report stating that for the first time, streaming music subscriptions
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