Nielsen Music: 2014 At-A-Glance

Nielsen Music: 2014 At-A-Glance

(Note: Nielsen Music’s comprehensive U.S. 2014 year-end music consumption report will be available shortly)

Overall On-Demand (Audio+Video) Streams

2014 – 164 Billion

2013 – 106 Billion

+54%

“Digital music consumption continues its robust growth, with On-Demand streaming up 54% over last year and 164 billion song streams being played in 2014 ,” says David Bakula, SVP Industry Insights, Nielsen Entertainment. “Although overall music sales are showing declines, Vinyl album sales were up 52% in 2014, shattering last year’s record-setting total by more than 3 million LPs.  In 2014, Vinyl album sales accounted for more than 6% of all physical albums sales.”

Vinyl Albums

2014 – 9.2 million

2013 – 6.1 million

+52%

*This is the highest year for vinyl sales since 1991, when Nielsen SoundScan first began tracking music sales. Vinyl album sales have increased (year-over-year) for the past nine consecutive years.

Overall Albums

2014 – 257 million

2013 – 289.4 million

-11

Digital Albums

2014 – 106.5 million

2013 – 117.6 million

-9%

**41 percent of all albums sold in 2014 were downloads (same in 2013)

Digital Songs

2014 – 1.1 billion

2013 – 1.26  billion

-12%

BILLBOARD’S 2014 TOP SELLING ALBUMS & DIGITAL SONGS, COMPILED BY NIELSEN MUSIC