U.S. Music Streaming Hiked By 12.2% In 2022 to Crack 1.3 Trillion

World on-demand music streams (for audio in addition to video) hiked by 25.6 p.c to crack 5.3 trillion throughout 2022, as stateside on-demand streams grew by double digits to surpass 1.3 trillion, in line with a newly launched report.

The music streaming stats – and a number of other different noteworthy information factors – got here to gentle in a just-published 2022 yearend report from Luminate. As talked about, home on-demand music streams (audio and video) elevated by 12.2 p.c 12 months over 12 months (YoY) in 2022 to hit 1.3 trillion, the doc exhibits.

Roughly 1.14 trillion of those streams derived from audio platforms (Spotify, Apple Music, and Amazon Music amongst them), for a 12.1 p.c YoY enhance, in comparison with 3.4 trillion audio streams globally (of the aforesaid 5.3 trillion complete), up 22.6 p.c YoY, in line with the useful resource.

In the meantime, video’s international on-demand music streaming jumped by 31.2 p.c YoY to account for the remaining 1.9 trillion, per the evaluation.

Again to the U.S. music market in 2022, each single-track downloads (151.9 million, down 25.1 p.c YoY) and digital album gross sales (20.2 million, down 22.8 p.c YoY) continued to say no, the breakdown states.

And on the bodily entrance, a 28 p.c gross sales enchancment for cassettes (440,000 items moved) and relatively modest 4.2 p.c progress for the still-resurging vinyl (43.5 million items moved) had been unable to offset CDs’ ongoing decline, the examine signifies.

Particularly, the doc relays that CD album gross sales fell by 11.6 p.c (35.9 million items moved) within the States final 12 months, thereby driving a 3.5 p.c dip for general bodily album gross sales (79.9 million items).

(Curiously, solely 50 p.c of “vinyl patrons personal a file participant,” per the useful resource, although the determine however marks a 194 p.c “greater probability than common music listeners.” In the meantime, Gen Z listeners are mentioned to be 27 p.c likelier to purchase vinyl than the typical fan, moreover spending 19 p.c “extra time with music weekly” and 10 p.c “more cash on music month-to-month.”)

Catalog releases, referring to those who, amongst different issues, debuted no less than 18 months again, are nonetheless swinging upward as a share of complete home listenership, the report exhibits. 72.2 p.c of stateside listening reached catalog works, in line with the evaluation, up from 69.8 p.c in 2021.

Lastly, for important music streaming takeaways from the 52-page-long useful resource, on-demand streams are mentioned to have grown dramatically in India from the primary week in 2022 (round 9 billion streams) to the 12 months’s last week (over 14 billion streams).

Consistent with different listening information, Unhealthy Bunny, Taylor Swift, Harry Styles, and BTS ranked prominently on the report’s gross sales charts. Throughout 2022, Swift offered 219,000 digital copies of Midnights within the U.S., yearend charts present, on high of 640,000 CD copies, 945,000 vinyl copies, 14,000 cassette copies, and 436,000 digital copies of “Anti-Hero” as well.