RIAA 2015 Year-End Sales and Shipment Data

[Phil O'Keefe]

http://audioxpress.com/article/RIAA-...ta-Report.html

 

"The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) published its annual Year-End Sales & Shipments report for 2015 and the results show that digital music subscription services reached new all-time highs, generating more than $1 billion in revenues for the first time, and averaging nearly 11 million paid subscriptions for the year. Revenues from vinyl albums also increased and represented a record $416 million."

 

It probably won't come as a surprise to anyone here, but the Music Industry is increasingly becoming a digital industry, with streaming growing year after year and now being the largest part of the industry, surpassing physical unit sales and digital downloads. Vinyl remains niche, but is still growing, and had the best year it's had since 1988.