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RIAA 2018 Year End Music Industry Revenue Report
RIAA 2018 Year End Music Industry Revenue Report
Amazon Prime, Pandora Plus, and others are included DIGITAL DOWNLOADS
in this category. Revenues from downloaded tracks and albums declined
for the sixth consecutive year to $1.04 billion. Permanent
Adoption of paid subscription services continued to
downloads of albums fell 25% to $500 million in 2018,
grow quickly in 2018. The average number of paid
and individual track sales were down 28% to $490 million.
subscriptions (excluding limited tier options) grew 42%
Downloads accounted for 11% of revenues for 2018, down
compared with the prior year, exceeding 50 million for
from 42% as recently as 2013.
the first time ever. On average, more than one million
new subscriptions were added on a monthly basis.
FIGURE 6
FIGURE 4
% CHANGE
DIGITAL SUBSCRIPTION & STREAMING 2017 2018 2017-2018
PHYSICAL
CD (Units Shipped) 87.7 52.0 -40.7%
(Dollar Value) $1,057.3 $698.4 -33.9%