Music Streaming & Sales Down During Global Health Crisis

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By Todd Spangler

After two weeks of streaming declines as Americans stayed glued to cable news, music consumers seem to be comfortably sheltered at home with streams growing 2% to 24.8 billion for the week ended April 2, up from 24.3 billion a week before.Yet while stability appears to be emerging, somewhat, for a U.S. music industry paralyzed by the coronavirus, last week's performance was still down 2.9% from 2020’s peak when total streams numbered 25.55 billion.

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While it might seem counterintuitive that music streams would decline at a time when so many Americans were ordered to stay home, data-savvy label executives were neither startled nor concerned by the 7.6% drop in plays that happened in the March 13-19 tracking week. Simply put, the say it’s down to focus on news and other televised options; the loss of daily commutes, where many people stream music; and multiple people at home together streaming the same things.

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Streams in the US dropped some 7.6% last week.

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