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BuzzAngle Music has released its 2017 report on U.S. music consumption. 2017 saw a significant increase in overall consumption, an outstanding 12.8% over 2016 that marks the third year in a row with increasing growth.

 

Audio stream consumption continued its explosive expansion with a 50.3% increase to 377B streams, an amazing 127B more streams than in 2016. Subscription streams are now at an impressive 80% of total audio streams, up from 76% in 2016.

 

Both album sales and song sales continued to decline, 14.6% and 23.2% respectively, but physical sales declined only 7%, while vinyl sales continued its impressive growth with an increase of 20.1% over 2016 and now comprises 10.4% of all physical album sales.

 

Top Consumption Highlights:

Albums:

● The top album of 2017 was ÷ by Ed Sheeran with 2,645,600 total project consumption units.
● There were only two albums to break 1 million pure album sales during 2017: top-selling album of the year, Reputation by Taylor Swift, with 1,899,772 sales and ÷ by Ed Sheeran with 1,042,255 album sales.
● The top-selling vinyl album of the year was Guardians of the Galaxy: Awesome Mix V. 1 with 64,175 sales.
● The top digital album of 2017 was reputation by Taylor Swift with 865,446 digital sales.

 

Streaming Activity:

● In 2017, one song broke the one billion-stream mark for the first time ever, “Despacito” by Luis Fonsiand Daddy Yankee (1.1 billion streams) and was also the most streamed song of the year.  Ed Sheeran “Shape of You” was the second most streamed song with 979.3 million streams.  The previous record was held by “Panda” by Desiigner which had 736.8 million streams in 2016.
● “HUMBLE.” by Kendrick Lamar was the most audio-streamed song in 2017 with more than 555.2 million streams.
● “Despacito” by Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee was also the most video-streamed song in 2017 with 594,059,722 million streams.
● There were 16 songs that were streamed more than 500 million times in 2017, compared to six in 2016 and two in 2015.
● There were 383 songs that streamed more than 100 million times in 2017 compared to 226 songs in 2016 and 111 songs in 2015.
● The top 1,000 streamed songs in 2017 accounted for 122.2 billion streams, an increase of 33% over 2016’s top 1,000 streamed songs (91.8 billion).
● Consistent with last year, 70%+ of the top 1,000 streamed songs in 2017 were either in the Urban or Pop genre.
● 50% of the top 1,000 streamed songs were Urban songs (Rap/Hip-Hop at 40% and R&B at 10%).
● Drake was the most streamed artist with 6 billion streams in 2017.  This is the second year in a row that Drake broke 6 billion streams in one year.  He is the only artist to have more than 6 billion in one year.  The next closest was Future with 4.2 billion streams.

 

Song Sales:
● There were two songs that had more than two million song downloads in 2017 compared to five in 2016 and 16 in 2015.
● There were only 14 songs that sold more than one million song downloads in 2017 compared to 36 in 2016 and 60 songs in 2015.
● “Shape of You” by Ed Sheeran was the most downloaded song in 2017 with 2,653,251 sales. (roughly 150,000 more downloads than last years most downloaded song “Can’t Stop the Feeling!” by Justin Timberlake).
● The top 1,000 song sales accounted for 170.9 million sales; down 30% over 2016’s top 1,000 songs (243 million sales).

Album Sales:
● The single day for the most album sales (and digital album sales) in 2017 was Friday, November 10 with 1,205,648 albums sold (698,150 digital album sales).  This was the release day of Taylor Swift’s reputation, which accounted for 61% of all albums sold that day (240,000 physical albums and 497,000 digital albums).
● Thursday, December 21 was the largest single day for physical album sales with 584,548 sales.  Black Friday, November 25,   was the next largest day for physical album sales with more than 581,018 sales.
● December 21 was the day for the most vinyl album sales with 130,635 vinyl albums sold.  Record Store Day, Saturday, April, 22, was the next with more than 102,000 vinyl albums sold.
● The average number of vinyl albums sold each day during 2017 was 23,787.
● The week of December 15th was the largest week of the year for album sales with a total of 5.1 million sales.

Song Sales:
● Once again, Christmas Day, Sunday, December 25, was the largest single day for song downloads with 3,060,729 downloads.
● The most downloaded song on Christmas Day was “Perfect” by Ed Sheeran with 32,888 sales

 

Holiday Season Highlights (2017 Holiday Season is Nov. 17 through Dec. 28)

Album Sales:
● Album sales during the 2017 holiday season were down 24.9% over 2016.
● Physical Album sales during the 2017 holiday season accounted for 20% of all physical album sales for the entire year.
● Physical album sales during the 2017 Holiday season were down 23% compared to 2016.
● 69% of albums purchased during the 2017 holiday season were physical albums (either CDs, vinyl albums or cassettes).
● Vinyl album sales accounted for 14.5% of all physical album sales during the 2017 holiday season and were up 17% compared to vinyl album sales in 2016 (2.4M vs. 1.99M).
● Vinyl album sales during the holiday season (the last 6 weeks of the year) accounted for 27% of all vinyl album sold in 2017.
● There were 26,699 cassettes purchased during the holiday season (an increase of 130% over 2016).
● The best-selling album during the 2017 holiday season was Reputation by Taylor Swift with 632,651 sales and the best-selling vinyl album during the holiday season was Abbey Road by The Beatles with 28,548 sales.
● The artist with the most album sales during the holiday season was Taylor Swift with 699,038 sales.  Pentatonix was second with 438,194 album sales.
● Once again, Elvis Presley was in the Top 10 of the best-selling artists (based on album sales) during the holiday season, this time at #10 with 183,767album sales.

 

Streaming Activity:
● On-demand audio streams during the 2017 holiday season were up 26% compared to 2016 with 43.2 billion streams.
● On-demand video streams during the 2017 holiday season were up 36% compared to 2016 with 29.9 billion streams.
● The most streamed artist during the holiday season was Post Malone with 638.7 million streams. Drake is #2 with 483.2 million streams.
● “Rockstar” by Post Malone was the most streamed song during the holiday season with 215.6 million streams (111.5 million audio streams) and “Gucci Gang” by Lil Pump was the most streamed video with more than 135.1 million streams during the holiday season.
● Once again, the most streamed Christmas song during the holiday season was “All I Want for Christmas is You” by Mariah Carey with more than 111.9 million streams (overall the #7 most streamed song during the holiday season).

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I love that Taylor's album had massive pure sale numbers 

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Audio stream consumption continued its explosive expansion with a 50.3% increase to 377B streams, an amazing 127B more streams than in 2016. Subscription streams are now at an impressive 80% of total audio streams, up from 76% in 2016.

Both album sales and song sales continued to decline, 14.6% and 23.2% respectively

 

Does anybody have a link to the report? It's not on the BuzzAngle website yet and there's no download in that article.

Why are these numbers so off from Soundscan?  "Shape Of You" wasn't the best selling song of the year, and both "Reputation" and "Divide" sold more than what they posted

 

When will the accurate Soundscan report be released?

buzzangle doesn't count itunes album complete, maybe this is the reason.

also they have less independent shop panel, so some vinyl sales are missing.

 

and most important thing, soundscan counts pre album release in year end.(single's sps before album release)

Edited January 3, 20188 yr by sadnews

Taylor 

Beyoncé is the 3rd most streamed female artist of the year! Probably would be #1 w/ Lemonade.

Edited January 4, 20188 yr by Timber

amazing catalog stream for B!

Omg Beyonce catalog streams 

Drake should be Artist of the Decade with the amount of on-demand streams he gets every year, but BB is lazy and probably won't account for his crazy catalog streams.

 

@iHype. Is he close to being the artist with the most US SPS this decade?

Edited January 4, 20188 yr by Timber

Just now, Timber said:

Drake should be Artist of the Decade with the amount of on-demand streams he gets every year. 

 

@iHype. Is he vlose to being the artist with the most US SPS this decade?

Drake's albums are above 22m SPS, while Adele's albums + 19 are above 28m SPS this decade. 

12 minutes ago, iHype. said:

Drake's albums are above 22m SPS, while Adele's albums + 19 are above 28m SPS this decade. 

Don't they do decade end charts based on albums' chart runs?

1 minute ago, Spidy said:

Don't they do decade end charts based on albums' chart runs?

yeah.

by the way,

"Retailer/DSP Reporting Notices:

• YouTube stopped reporting stream counts for songs that didn't exceed 1,000 per day starting in the third quarter of 2016,

• Tidal stopped reporting their streams at the end of July, 2017"

 

hmmmm I wonder If tidal still report their numbers to nielsen.

Taylor outstreamed Rihanna 

Taylor sales  

Shape of You best selling song One of the biggest singles ever (worldwide) Despacito can rot in hell (btw for the people saying Despacito sold more: sure 2 versions sold more than the 1 version of Shape of you, but lets also consider the fact that Divide also sold over 1 Million pure in the US; im sure if Shape of you wasnt on the album a good amount of those people would have bought it separately )

Gaga

 

On 1/3/2018 at 8:38 PM, Beyonce_runthis said:

Omg Beyonce catalog streams 

This high without Lemonade...she is huge on streaming but doesn't take advantage of it.

In 2017, one song broke the one billion-stream mark for the first time ever, “Despacito” by Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee (1.1 billion streams) and was also the most streamed song of the year.

 

With 1.1 billion domestic streams and close to 2.7 M downloads, why did Despacito only go 8XP? It should nearly be Diamond. The RIAA cert was fairly recent, and Despacito hasn't done much since then.

The top-selling vinyl album of the year was Guardians of the Galaxy: Awesome Mix V. 1 with 64,175 sales.

 

Galaxy should top the list of biggest cassette albums. I don't see where BuzzAngle said this for the year, just for the Christmas season. BB and SS did report year end 2016 Cassette sales, where Guardian Vol.1 was tops there. It sounds like cassettes are indeed making a comeback. 

 

Also, I'm with @alexanderao. Can someone please share the link to this 2017 recap report?

Click the link. There's download link on its page.

5 hours ago, Timber said:

This high without Lemonade...she is huge on streaming but doesn't take advantage of it.

This is even without August - December Tidal streams

 

On 3.01.2018 at 9:53 PM, sadnews said:

buzzangle doesn't count itunes album complete, maybe this is the reason.

also they have less independent shop panel, so some vinyl sales are missing.

 

and most important thing, soundscan counts pre album release in year end.(single's sps before album release)

Nielsen uses quite complicated weighting to estimate 100% market sales, BAM uses rare numbers

On 1/3/2018 at 3:16 PM, DELE2125 said:

Why are these numbers so off from Soundscan?  "Shape Of You" wasn't the best selling song of the year, and both "Reputation" and "Divide" sold more than what they posted

 

When will the accurate Soundscan report be released?

It's out now.

oh according to their website, they count itunes complete(and amazon's) but song sales count won't be reduced from it unlike nielsen.

which is why their songs ales are higher than nielsen. 

I thought they didn't count it before.. 

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some albums have higher pure sales in buzz angle music.

 

Beatiful Trauma 648,149(BAM) vs 628,000(nielsen) , 20k less in nielsen.

Drake More life 365,367 vs 363,000, 2k less in nielsen. @iHype.

 

and some have really big differences.

DAMN. 766,434 vs 910,000 , 144k

24K Magic 603,598 vs 710,000, 107k

Metallica 335,314 vs 585,000 , 250k (I guess ticket bundle wasn't reported to BAM)

 

BAM obviously get all the major chain's number from physical to digital.

and only small independent shops makes differences. so this is really huge. 

 

others have like 5~60k differences at best, that's all.

 

Reputation 1,899,772 vs 1,903,000 , 3k differences

% 1,042,255 vs 1,102,000, 60k

Moana soundtrack 659,884 vs 709,000, 50k

From A Room: Volume 1 606,342 vs 658,000, 50k

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.2 550,613 vs 600,000, 50k

Trolls 497,043 vs 522,000 , 25k

 

+ anyone know If BAM count itunes/amazong gift or purchase over 4 copies?