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The US Latin music market grew 35% in 2021

14/04/2022

The US Latin music market grew 35% in 2021 continuing a 6-year trend of double-digit growth according to the RIAA, the American recorded music industry association. Although $886 million marks an all time high, 2021 revenues adjusted for inflation remain 15% below the value of Latin’s strongest year in 2005. Latin’s share of US music revenues grew to 5.9% up from 5.4% in 2020. Revenues from streaming formats grew by 36% to an all-time high […]

US online audio listening grew in 2021

02/04/2022

US online audio listening grew in 2021 reaching 209 million people according to the Infinite Dial 2022. The Infinite Dial is produced by Edison Research sponsored by Wondery and ART19 and is America’s longest-running survey of digital media consumer behaviour in the US, published annually since 1998. It provides survey data on a number of important media channels, including streaming audio, podcasting, and social media from a representative sample of the US population aged 12 and over. Online audio consumption […]

Over half of young Americans don’t have a radio set

19/03/2022

Over half of young Americans don’t have a radio set in their home according to The Infinite Dial 2022 survey from Edison Research and sponsored by Wondery and Art19. In the 2020 Infinite Dial, performed before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, just under one-in-three Americans age 12 and older reported not having a single radio in their home. Two years later, that number is now 39%. Fourteen years ago, only 4% of respondents said they had no radios at […]

SOURCE: RIAA - US music industry streaming revenues

US music revenues grew 23% in 2021

10/03/2022

US music revenues grew 23% in 2021 to $15 Bn making it the sixth consecutive year of growth for the industry according to figures released by the RIAA. All major formats of music grew versus the prior year with the exception of digital downloads. Paid subscriptions continued to be the biggest growth driver. At wholesale value 2021 revenues were up 22% to $9.8 Bn. On a nominal basis, these revenue levels exceed the record high […]

Pandora launches ‘Digicore by SoundCloud’ station

04/03/2022

Pandora launches ‘Digicore by SoundCloud’ station, the first in a series of stations from SoundCloud’s Music Discovery Series ‘SCENES’. The new station will showcase pop’s next genre-bending evolution from a community of underground DIY artists that started on SoundCloud. Originating from SoundCloud’s award-winning music discovery series, SCENES, ‘Digicore by SoundCloud’ is the first from a series of stations set to launch on Pandora to amplify the hottest rising music communities and culture-shifting collectives bubbling up on […]

American ‘super listeners’ listen to 11.2 hours of podcasts weekly

24/02/2022

American ‘super listeners’ listen to 11.2 hours of podcasts weekly with Super Listeners increasingly finding podcast content on YouTube. These findings are part of third Super Listeners Study from Edison Research in partnership with Ad Results Media based on a survey of Podcast ‘Super Listeners’ Americans aged 18+ who listen to five or more hours of podcasts weekly. The survey was primarily intended to find out what podcast Super Listeners felt about advertising within podcast content but […]

Spotify Car Thing officially launched

23/02/2022

Spotify Car Thing officially launched and is only available in the US for $89.99 but will require you to have a Spotify Premium account to use it. Back in April 2021, Spotify announced its experiment with a smart player that could seamlessly fill your car with a world of music, news, entertainment, talk, and more. Then in October, it unveiled a limited release of Car Thing to Spotify Premium users. It is now fully available in the US and […]