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Recorded music market revenue worldwide 2005-2018
Recorded music market revenue worldwide from 2005 to 2018, by source (in billion U.S. dollars)
by Amy Watson,
last edited
May 27, 2019
The statistic illustrates the recorded music market revenue worldwide from 2005 to 2018. In 2018, physical music sales generated 4.7 billion U.S. dollars, whereas digital music sales made 2.3 billion worldwide.
Recorded music market revenue worldwide from 2005 to 2018, by source (in billion U.S. dollars)
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by Amy Watson,
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May 27, 2019
The statistic illustrates the recorded music market revenue worldwide from 2005 to 2018. In 2018, physical music sales generated 4.7 billion U.S. dollars, whereas digital music sales made 2.3 billion worldwide.
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- Annual income of highest earning country musicians in 2018 (in million U.S. dollars)Highest earning country musicians 2018
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- Music industry revenue worldwide from 2012 and 2021 (in billion U.S. dollars)
- Global recorded music revenue from 1999 to 2018 (in billion U.S. dollars)
- Share of recorded music industry revenues worldwide in 2018, by segment
- Recorded music market revenue worldwide from 2005 to 2018, by source (in billion U.S. dollars)
- Market share held by selected record label companies worldwide in 2017, by branch
- Music industry revenue in the United States from 2012 to 2021 (in billion U.S. dollars)
- Distribution of music industry revenue in the United States in 2017 and 2018, by source
- Retail value of music shipments in the United States from 1999 to 2018 (in billion U.S. dollars)
- Change of music sales in the United States from 2009 to 2018, by category
- Music album sales in the United States from 2007 to 2018 (in million units)
- Recorded music industry revenue in the United States from 2009 to 2018 (in billion U.S. dollars)
- Share of music song consumption* in the United States in 2018, by genre
- Top-selling albums in music history as of December 2018 (in million units)
- All time top selling albums in the United States as of October 2018 (in certified million units sold)
- Top-selling digital songs in the United States in 2018 (in thousands)
- Most popular songs in the United States in 2018, by number of audio streams (in millions)
- Top-selling vinyl albums in the United States in 2018 (in thousands)
- Top selling cassette albums in the United States in 2018 (in thousand units)
- Artists with the most consecutive weeks in the Billboard Hot 100's top 10 in the United States as of July 2017 (in weeks)
- Most successful music labels in the United States in 2017, by total consumption (in millions)
- Most successful music distributors in the United States in 2017, by total consumption (in millions)
- Share of music album consumption in the United States in 2017, by label
- Annual sales and operating revenue of Sony Corporation's music segment in the fiscal years 2008 to 2019 (in billion U.S. dollars)
- Universal Music Group's revenue from 2004 to 2018 (in billion euros)
- Revenue of the Warner Music Group in fiscal years 2004 to 2018 (in million U.S. dollars)
- Market share of independent record labels worldwide in 2017, by product type
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- Most successful music tours worldwide in 2018, based on gross revenue (in million U.S. dollars)
- Most successful music tours in North America in 2018, based on gross revenue (in million U.S. dollars)
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- Highest grossing music tours of all time in North America as of 2017 (in million U.S. dollars)
- Live Nation Entertainment's concert revenue from 2008 to 2018 (in billion U.S. dollars)
- Number of concerts and festivals promoted by Live Nation from 2008 to 2018
- Share of time spent listening to music in the United States in 2017, by format
- Distribution of music consumption in the United States in 2017, by genre and format
- Reach of music consumption on a typical weekday in the United States as of January 2018, by daypart
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- Mobile music revenue in the United States from 2005 to 2018 (in million U.S. dollars)
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- Top-selling digital songs in the United States from January to June 2019, based on unit sales (in thousands)
- Digital album sales in the United States from 2008 to 2018 (in millions)
- Value of digital music singles downloaded in the United States from 2004 to 2018 (in million U.S. dollars)
- Most popular mobile music and video apps in the United States as of March 2019, by reach
- Most-streamed weekly tracks on Spotify in the United States as of June 27, 2019 (in million streams)
- Most popular music videos in the United States in 2018, by number of streams (in millions)
- Share of music video streams in the United States in 2018, by genre
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- Most viewed music videos on Vevo worldwide in 2018 (in millions)
- Most expensive music videos worldwide as of January 2018, based on production cost (in million U.S. dollars)
- Number of MTV Video Music Awards viewers from 2000 to 2018 (in millions)
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- Most Grammy-winning albums of all time as of 2019
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- Number of Grammy Awards categories from 1959 to 2019
- Growth in sales and streams of songs performed at the Grammy Awards in 2017
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- Highest-paid musicians in the United States in 2017 (in million U.S. dollars)
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- World's richest hip-hop artists from June 2016 to June 2018, by earnings (in million U.S. dollars)
- Annual income of highest earning country musicians in 2018 (in million U.S. dollars)
- Annual income of the highest earning DJs in 2018 (in million U.S. dollars)
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- Number of streamed tracks in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2015 to 2016, by streams threshold
- Distribution of music streaming volume by month in the United Kingdom (UK) from January to December 2014
- Music streaming volume distribution in the United Kingdom (UK) 2016, by week day
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- Music revenue in Japan in 2012 and 2013 (in billion U.S. dollars)
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