Confirmed: Music streaming WAS down last week amid Coronavirus quarantine… but not on YouTube

MBW takes a look at streaming across the globe, the US, Italy and the UK
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Confirmed: Music streaming WAS down last week amid Coronavirus quarantine… but not on YouTube

MBW takes a look at streaming across the globe, the US, Italy and the UK
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The Grammys fallout gets more shocking every day – but how relevant is the show to the modern record business?

MBW research suggests the famed ‘Grammy bump’ is weakening
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Hip-hop is still growing – with over 50% of the USA’s Top 100 streaming tracks of 2019

Genre’s dominance of Stateside charts showing no sign of slowing down
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US streams topped a trillion last year. But is there a superstar recession looming?

How, collectively, the world’s biggest megastars are losing streaming market share in the United States
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Why spend $4.1bn on A&R? Because new artists are accelerating streaming’s growth.

Some more good news for Lil Nas X and his contemporaries…
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Daniel Ek wasn’t lying: streaming is becoming less dominated by mega-hits

The number of streams attracted by the Top 50 audio streaming hits last year went DOWN
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How to have a streaming hit in the USA: hire 9.1 songwriters (and a rap artist)

BuzzAngle data reveals all you need to know about 2018’s top-selling singles and albums
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2018 On-Demand Music Streams +42%, Paid Streams +50% In Q4 [BuzzAngle Music]

[UPDATED] On-demand audio streams set a record high of 534.6 billion in the US in 2018, up 42% over the previous year, according to the BuzzAngle Music Industry Year End Report. But the best news for artists and labels came thanks to 50% growth in streams by paid subscribers. Those…