Total album consumption: 700 964 848 units (up 16.2% from 603 157 614 units in 2017)

Total song consumption: 5 797 782 045 units (up 24.7% from 4 550 279 823 units in 2017)

 

Album sales: 121 186 643 copies (down 18.2% from 148 129 632 copies in 2017)

- Vinyl album sales: 9 663 299 copies (up 11.9% from 8 637 759 copies in 2017)

Song sales: 401 088 652 copies (down 28.8% from 563 688 585 copies in 2017)

 

Total song streams: 809 504 008 963 streams (up 35.4% from 597 988 685 743 streams in 2017)

- Total audio streams: 534 619 452 842 streams (up 41.8% from 376 915 735 424 streams in 2017)

- Total video streams: 274 884 556 121 streams (up 24.3% from 221 072 950 319 streams in 2017)

 

 

Top genres by album consumption

 

#1 - Hip-hop/rap - 21.7%

#2 - Pop - 20.1%

#3 - Rock - 14%

#4 - R&B - 10.6%

#5 - Latin - 9.4%

#6 - Country - 8.7%

#7 - EDM - 3.9%

…

#10 - World (this includes K-pop) - 1.5%

 

Top genres by song consumption

 

#1 - Hip-hop/rap - 24.7%

#2 - Pop - 19%

#3 - Rock 11.7%

#4 - R&B - 11.2%

#5 - Latin - 10.8%

#6 - Country - 7.9%

#7 - EDM - 4.3%

…

#10 - World - 1.6%

 

Holiday season highlights (16 Nov - 30 Dec)

 

• Most streamed song during the holiday season:  "thank u, next" by Ariana Grande; 315.7m streams; 167m audio streams, 148m video streams (Also is the most streamed video)
• Drake had beat out XXXTentacion as the most-streamed artist during the holiday season with 943.8m streams vs X's 941.4m stremas
• Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas Is You" garnered 187m streams this holiday season (making it the most streamed holiday song during the holiday season), up 112m from 2017's holiday season. It's also the third most-streamed song during the holiday season.
• "AIWFCIY" is also the most-streamed song of the last week of the year with 51m streams.

http://www.buzzanglemusic.com/wp-content/uploads/BuzzAngle-Music-2018-US-Report-Industry.pdf

Edited January 4, 20197 yr by Yndda

B-b-but free streams!!1!

Album & song sales keep tanking while streams are driving the music industry. Poor the “Pure sales still matter!!!!1!1!1!1!1” stans. Sorry girls, 2018 has proven you wrong again. Streaming is driving the Category.  

Strange that rock beats rnb

WOW at POP climbing back on top from flopping last 2017 in general

2 hours ago, Fenrir said:

Album & song sales keep tanking while streams are driving the music industry. Poor the “Pure sales still matter!!!!1!1!1!1!1” stans. Sorry girls, 2018 has proven you wrong again. Streaming is driving the Category.  

even more impressive for songs and albums hitting 500k Pure

1 hour ago, Rev8 said:

Strange that rock beats rnb

Not really. There's only two songs in the top 40 on Billboard Hot 100 next week that's labeled "R&B"

2 hours ago, Rev8 said:

Strange that rock beats rnb

Afaik, rock always the top genre

13 hours ago, Thickorita said:

B-b-but free streams!!1!

right. atrl loves to talk about how most streaming is free or whatever, but as it turns out, most streaming is actually paid

Taylor being the most consumed female and top 5 overall, whew 

Whew at Taylor’s continued success

On 1/5/2019 at 10:00 AM, Rev8 said:

Strange that rock beats rnb

Most "catalog" albums that sell are classified as rock.

 

OT: The messiness of Top Albums By Total Consumption chart? by XXXTENTACION has "1,899,772" album salesLots of data doesn't really match (or close to) Nielsen's numbers or numbers from their own other charts...

Edited January 6, 20197 yr by Recordyear

Top Artists (By Total Consumption)

#25 BTS

 

Top Albums (by sales)

#14 LT: Tear - BTS

#18 LY:Answer - BTS

 

Top Artists (By album sales)

#2 BTS

 

BuzzAngle has 0 credibility, their reports are such a mess. 

32 minutes ago, whatyouwant_ said:

BuzzAngle has 0 credibility, their reports are such a mess. 

HDD and variety both use their data. i'd say they're pretty credible. they have errors but in general they're not extremely off?

Edited January 6, 20197 yr by Yndda

1 minute ago, Yndda said:

HDD and variety both use their data. i'd say they're pretty credible.

well, they can't even publish the right figures from HDD which use their data.

 

For example, if you look at ASIB weekly figures from HDD charts you'll see a big difference from what their released on the report. 

 

And as someone already pointed out, in what world a XXX's album has sold 1.8m ?

Their numbers can't even match the previously numbers from their own data.

On 1/5/2019 at 7:49 AM, Yndda said:

right. atrl loves to talk about how most streaming is free or whatever, but as it turns out, most streaming is actually paid

I mean, half of audio streams are free for users. Streaming services get their money through ads. 

Beyonce #5 most streamed female without any music since 2013*!

 

 

*Lemonade is tidal only.

 

What a catalogue!