1.1.17 - 1.31.17 Numbers Thread

Jan 5, 2017 23:51:51 GMT -8 graciejane said:

With a new album hopefully somewhere on the horizon, here is a link to the 2016 billboard top stats



www.billboard.com/biz/articles/7647021/drakes-views-is-nielsen-musics-top-album-of-2016-in-the-us



Of note on sales and streaming:

MUSIC CONSUMPTION & STREAMING GAINS: Overall for 2016, Nielsen reports that total music consumption rose 3.1 percent to 560.7 million units. That figure adds together traditional album sales, track equivalent album units, and on-demand streaming equivalent album units from both video and audio streams. One track equivalent album unit is equal to 10 tracks sold. One streaming equivalent album unit is equal to 1,500 on-demand streams.



In terms of audio-only consumption (removing on-demand video streams from the 560.7 million number), the gain was 2 percent, rising to 440.81 million units.



Overall album sales, however, declined by 16.7 percent, falling to 200.54 million sold in 2016. While album sales continue to erode, the popularity of streaming music is still sizzling: Total on-demand streams (audio and video combined) jumped 39.2 percent in 2016 to 431.74 billion, on-demand audio streams rose 76.4 percent to 251.86 billion, and on-demand video streams climbed 7.5 percent to 179.88 billion.