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US music revenues grew for 8th consecutive year

26/03/2024

US music revenues grew for 8th consecutive year in 2023 up 8% to a record high of $17.1 Bn according to figures released by the RIAA. Streaming continued to be the biggest driver of growth with record levels of paid subscriptions, continued growth in ad-supported revenues and growing contributions from new platforms and services. Paid subscriptions continue to drive streaming growth Streaming continued to account for the great majority of recorded music revenues in 2023. Paid subscriptions, […]

Spotify adds a new Audiobook Access subscription plan

06/03/2024

Spotify adds a new Audiobook Access subscription plan giving booklovers 15 hours of listening for $9.99/month. Available only in the US it grants access to over 200,000 titles. According to Spotify, ‘this plan and in one app experience, listeners can continue to tune into music and podcasts on our free, ad-supported service, offering a great option for literary enthusiasts who are looking for more audiobook-specific content.’Given that Spotify Premium is $10.99/month in the US and […]

Top 50 US podcasts for Q4 2023

16/02/2024

The Top 50 US podcasts for Q4 2023 chart according to Edison Podcast Metrics has been published by Edison Research. Edison Podcast Metrics is the only podcast measurement service that measures the relative audience size and demographics of all podcast networks in the US. The Edison Podcast Metrics Top 50 Podcasts of Q4 2023 list is derived from data collected from 9th October 2023 to 23rd December 2023 December 23, 2023 and is based on surveys of 5,356 weekly podcast […]

Americans still listen to AM/FM radio

08/02/2024

Americans still listen to AM/FM radio for 36% of their daily audio time according to a recent blog post by Edison Research. Using their Share of Ear survey that measures the full audio space and how much the audio average American consumes in a typical day using a nationally representative sample of those aged 13+. The chart above shows the Q4 2023 data for the Share of Ear Audio Dial, which shows the percentage of daily listening that […]

40.3% of Americans listen to podcasts regularly

31/01/2024

40.3% of Americans listen to podcasts regularly with a 12% growth in the number of listeners in the past 2 years according to Triton Digital. Triton Digital’s U.S. Year-End Podcast Report provides key insights into the growing US podcast landscape over the course of 2023. Key findings from the U.S. Year-End Podcast Report The number of monthly podcast listeners in the US has increased by 12% in the past 2 years. 40.3% of the US population are monthly […]

YouTube gets the most US listeners in the evening

26/01/2024

YouTube gets the most US listeners in the evening whilst midday is the peak time for podcast listening according to a recent blog post by Edison Research. They show which dayparts have the most minutes of listening from each audio platform. In broadcast programming, dayparting is the practice of dividing the broadcast day into several parts, in which a different type of radio programming or television show appropriate for that time period is aired. Edison Research’s Share of Ear dataset collects listening data of US consumers […]

Global on-demand audio streams reached 4.1 Tn in 2023

13/01/2024

Global on-demand audio streams reached 4.1 Tn in 2023, an increase of 22.3% on 2022 according to Luminate, the entertainment data and insights company that powers Billboard Charts. Previously in their annual Luminate Year-End Music Report they have focussed on the US music market but this year there are insights on 50 markets including the US and Canada. On-demand music streaming increased by 12.7% in the US in 2023 with 1.2 Tn streams. World, Latin and Country music […]