
Number of digital music album downloads in the United States 2004-2022
The number of digital music album downloads in the United States in 2021 amounted to 23.9 million in 2022, marking a drop of more than 50 percent from 2017. Over 100 million digital music albums were downloaded in the U.S. between 2011 and 2015, but the number then began to decrease annually and has failed to recover since.