U.S. Music Industry Hits Milestone in 2019 With Over 1 Trillion Streams

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In 2019, U.S. on-demand streams crossed the 1 trillion threshold for the first time ever in a calendar year and logged double-digit percentage increases across nearly every category, save for overall album and track sales (though vinyl sales grew 14.5% to 18.8 million). Music streaming overall was up 29.3% from 2018, while o

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