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RIAA music sales figures for US Market - Streaming booming - PhilP - 23-Mar-2015 Widely reports, the latest RIAA figures for music sales in the US in 2014 make interesting reading. http://riaa.com/media/D1F4E3E8-D3E0-FCEE-BB55-FD8B35BC8785.pdf The big news is that total revenues from streaming (Internet radio, subscription etc) have overtaken revenues from CD sales for the first time. There are now 7.7m subscriptions (worth $799M) to on-demand streaming services in the US up 26% on 2013. Total streaming revenues are approaching $2bn annually. CD sales continue to fall - down 12.7% but vinyl sales are up 49% |