Overall Music Consumption โ Sales & Streaming Activity โ Down 3.3% from Last Year
New York โ July 3, 2014 โ Nielsen, the entertainment industry’s leading music data information provider, reveals 2014 mid-year U.S. music sales, airplay and streaming data for the six-month period of Dec. 30, 2013 through June 29, 2014. Nielsen SoundScan measures U.S. point-of-sale of recorded music product. Nielsen BDS captures U.S. radio airplay and music streams. Both systems power many of the Billboard charts.
Nos primeiros seis meses de 2014, as vendas de รกlbuns caรญram 14,9% em relaรงรฃo aos primeiros seis meses de 2013. As vendas de รกlbuns em vinil e o streaming sob demanda continuam apresentando fortes ganhos: as vendas de LPs em vinil aumentaram 40,4% e o streaming sob demanda geral aumentou 42% em relaรงรฃo ao ano passado, com o รกudio sob demanda aumentando 50,1% e o vรญdeo sob demanda aumentando 35,2%.
โCom os streams sob demanda ultrapassando 70 bilhรตes de mรบsicas nos primeiros seis meses de 2014, o streaming continua a ser uma parte cada vez mais significativa da indรบstria musicalโ, disse David Bakula, vice-presidente sรชnior da Nielsen Entertainment. โO crescimento de 42% do streaming em relaรงรฃo ao ano anterior e o aumento de 40% dos discos de vinil em relaรงรฃo ao ritmo recorde do ano passado mostram que o interesse em comprar e consumir mรบsica continua robusto, com dois segmentos muito distintos da indรบstria em expansรฃo substancial.โ
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