2019 U.S. Music Consumption Year End Report

January 31, 2020

As a result of consumers continuing to move more towards streaming music, ondemand stream consumption now represents 85% of all music consumption in the United States; a 7.6-point jump over 2018 (77%). On-demand audio stream consumption in 2019 set a record high with 705 billion streams, up 32% over 2018’s 534.6 billion audio streams. While album sales and song sales continued to decline, 23% and 26% respectively, vinyl album sales in 2019 experienced another double-digit growth year; up 10.5% over 2018. The 2019 BuzzAngle U.S. music report is filled with many more stats on all forms of consumption. We hope you enjoy this year’s report and we welcome your feedback.

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