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New report reveals streaming is setting massive new benchmarks for worldwide music consumption

Nielsen’s mid-year music report has confirmed streaming’s continued dominance across the world.

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Nielsen’s midyear music report has revealed that streaming is setting massive new benchmarks for worldwide music consumption.

As Forbes note, so far in 2017, on-demand audio streams topped 184 billion, up 62.4% over the same time period last year. When video streams are added to the equation, the total soars to 284 billion streams, an increase of 36.4% versus the first half of 2016.

The gains in streaming have been more than enough to offset the continued decline of physical and digital sales: overall audio consumption has grown 8.9% despite a 17% dip in physical and a 19.9% drop in digital.

“The first half of 2017 has seen some incredible new benchmarks for the music industry,” said David Bakula, Nielsen’s SVP of Music Industry Insights, in a statement. “The rapid adoption of streaming platforms by consumers has generated engagement with music on a scale that we’ve never seen before.”

As streaming continues to dominate,  album sales have dropped more than 18% (downloads and physical combined).

Vinyl, on the other hand, continues to kill it, with sales continuing to rise – they’re up 2% in the first half of 2017 from 6.22 million 6.36 million.

You can read all about it here.

These figures comes after streaming was announced as the #1 source of revenue for records labels.