U.S Audio Music Streams Hit 1 Trillion In a Single Year
For the first time in a single year, music audio streams in the United States surpassed one trillion streams.
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For the first time in a single year, music audio streams in the United States surpassed one trillion streams.
According to US market monitor Luminate (formerly MRC Data / Nielsen Music), the 1 trillion mark was crossed on Saturday (November 26).
Luminate data also expressed the number of music audio streams in the US increased by 11.9 billion over 2021, when the figure was 988.1 billion.
It's also 7x more than the 142.9 billion music audio streams recorded in the US in 2015, according to Luminate data.
A trillion streams of US music audio in 2022 means music listeners have spent about 960,000 years streaming music.
Latin music had its most successful streaming week ever in the US on May 12, 2022 with 1.8 billion streams. This was the first time Latin music outstreamed Country music in a single week in the US, thanks largely to Bad Bunny's now Grammy-nominated album Un Verano sin Ti.
During the first half of 2022, according to Luminate, music audio streaming was up +24.7% around the world (across global territories). which showed that streaming revenues grew 10%, from $5.9 billion in H1 2021 to $6.5 billion in the first half of 2022.
