Overall Music Consumption – Sales & Streaming Activity – Down 3.3% from Last Year
New York – July 3, 2014 – 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.
2014年前六个月，专辑销量与2013年前六个月相比下降了14.9%。黑胶唱片销售和点播流媒体继续保持强劲增长：黑胶唱片销量比去年增长了40.4%，点播流媒体整体增长了42%，其中点播音频增长了50.1%，点播视频增长了35.2%。
"尼尔森娱乐高级副总裁大卫-巴库拉（David Bakula）表示："2014年上半年，点播流音乐播放量超过700亿首，流媒体在音乐产业中的地位日益重要。尼尔森娱乐高级副总裁大卫-巴库拉（David Bakula）表示："流媒体同比增长42%，黑胶唱片比去年创纪录的速度增长了40%，这表明人们对购买和消费音乐的兴趣持续旺盛，音乐产业中两个截然不同的细分市场都在大幅扩张。"
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