Music consumption statistics
Published on: June 17, 2008 Department: Music
All Music stats
- Top US music retailers: Apple, Wal-Mart, Best Buy, Amazon, Target
- 41% of online buyers of music ordered a CD and 58% downloaded digital files
- 56% of music buyers could buy music online
- How do online music buyers find out about new music?
- What online users do after buying music
- Music buying by ages
- 12% of music buyers purchase digital music files
- 83% music buyers find their music from hearing a song on the radio, on TV, or in a movie
- 27% of internet users downloaded music from the internet in 2008
- What do music buyers do after buying music online?
- How people learn about music they may want to buy
- Music consumption statistics
- 53% of online Americans purchased music in 2007
- 32% of internet users buy music online
- 56% of those who bought music most recently said they could have made the purchase online
- 62% of Americans say all of the music they buy are CDs
- Sharing content and buzz after buying music
- How people learn about music they may want to buy
- How Internet users find out about new music
- What people do after buying music online
- Demographics of an online music buyer
- 12% of music buyers purchase digital music files
- 24% of US teens write music
- How internet users who have bought music in 2007 use online resources to learn about music
- 37% of US consumers own a portable MP3 player
- Most popular music download services: iTunes, Napster
- How digital music gets on the users’ phones
- 28% of those online users who listen to radio have a MySpace page
- 33 mln Americans listen to online radio stations
- 500 mln music phones shipped in 2007
- 74.1% of iPhone owners listened to mobile music in January 2008
- 64% of Canadian teens have downloaded digital music
- Top US music retailers: Wal-Mart, Apple
- 48% of US teens did not buy a single CD in 2007
- 4.85 bln hours spent on online music in 2007
- Average MP3 player only 57% full
- By 2011 50% of music sold in the US will be digital
- 17% of US kids watch movies on portable players
- Top overall music destinations for US teens: iTunes, Limewire, MySpace
- 81% of Chinese Internet users have IM, 56.5% use e-mail
- US recording industry revenues down $11 bln in 2006
- 220 mln ringtones sold for $567 mln in 2007
- Top-selling polyphonic ringtones in 2007
- Top-selling mastertone ringtones in 2007
- Most streamed Internet songs in 2007
- Top Internet music videos in 2007
- Global digital music sales up 40% in 2007
- Most frequently played artists in the US in 2007
- Most frequently played songs in the US in 2007
- 840 mln digital tracks purchased in the US in 2007
- 1.4 bln music purchases in 2007 in the US
- Top-selling artists of the last two decades: Garth Brooks, Beatles, Mariah Carey, Celine Dion
- Top-selling digital albums in the US in 2007
- Top-selling digital tracks in the US in 2007
- Top-selling digital artists in the US in 2007: Fergie, Timbaland, Rihanna
- Subscription music market to reach $3.3 bln in 2012
- Top-selling songs in the US in 2007
- Top-selling artists in the US in 2007: Josh Groban, Hannah Montana, Eagles
- Noel by Josh Groban is the top-selling album in the US in 2007
- 2007 digital track sales in the US
- US HD radio adoption to reach 30 mln by 2012
- 2007 digital album sales in the US
- Europeans spent 401.2 mln euros in 2007
- Music market shares in US in 2007
- Digital catalog sales up 64% in 2007, deep catalog up 63%
- 27 songs sold more than 100K copies after-Christmas in 2007
- 2007 US music sales by genre
- UK online music sales reached 2.9 mln tracks in the last week of 2007
- Music sales volume in the US in 2007
- 500.5 mln albums were sold in 2007
- Digital music accounted for 10% of music purchases in 2007
- Half of Mac users and 16% of PC users buy music online
- US digital music spending to reach $3.4 bln by 2012
- 44k MPEG transcoders and encoders to ship by 2011
- Top music sites in August 2007: Yahoo! Music, ArtistDirect, MySpace Music
- PMP/MP3 player market to grow to 275 mln units by 2011
- Digital music sales up 49% in the first half of 2007
- 27.9 mln Americans to have music phones by year-end 2007
- EMEA satellite radio subscriptions to generate $30.1 bln in 2011
- 72% of online Americans listen to music on their PCs
- Asia Pacific music market to generate $12.2 bln in 2011
- Top music retailers in Q1 2007: Wal-Mart, Best Buy, iTunes, Amazon, Target
- 150.2 mln Flash-equipped MP3 players to sell in 2011
- Mobile music generated $703.2 mln in China in 2006
- 268.6 mln PMP and MP3 players to ship in 2011
- 10% of all music sold in Europe in 2007 will be digital music
- 26% of all music sold will be digital in 2011
- Global online music market to grow 62% in 2007
- 630 mln devices shipped in 2006 supported MPEG
- Music player market shares: Apple - 73.7%, SanDisk - 9%
- 47 mln digital music households in the US in 2006
- MP3 player sales up 23% in 2006
- $2 bln worth of digital tracks sold in 2006
- Digital music sales up 67% in 2006
- 41 mln MP3 players to ship in 2007
- Music sales breakdown in 2005 and 2006
- iTunes revenues up 84% in Q1-Q3 2006 versus Q1-Q3 2005
- Music sales down 4.9% in 2006, digital music up 65% in 2006
- 26.7% of US households have an MP3 player
- Mobile music to generate $32 bln by 2010
- Mobile music to generate $25 mln in 2006
- 100 mln digital music players sold by 2011
- 58% of iPod owners who are shopping for another music player would buy Zune
- Asian mobile music market generated $3.3 bln in 2005
- UK ringtone market generated 177 mln pounds in 2005
- US flash player market: Apple - 68%, SanDisk - 14%
- Percentage of time dedicated to radio among various age groups
- 73% of UK downloaders download music regularly
- Singapore MP3 player market up 77% in 2005
- 14 mln MP3 players sold in Asia-Pacific in 2005
- In 2005 8% of American Internet users paid for digital music, in 2006 - 23%
- 28% of Americans have a digital music player
- Sales of digital albums up 126% in the first half of 2006
- Average digital single sales in 4 months from the track release
- 9.7 mln simultaneous file-sharers worldwide in May 2006
- 50 mln Americans to subscribe to wireless music services by 2010, pay more than $1 bln
- 35% of business users store songs on their business PCs
- 42% of German Internet users have paid for music online
- Digital music broadband value-added revenues up 237% in 2005
- Music sales down 3% in 2005
- UK digital music market: iTunes - 44%, AllOfMP3.com - 14%
- 140 mln MP3 players sold in 2005, 286 mln by 2010
- 75% of UK Internet users still prefer CD as the format for owning music
- Linux market in China generated $11.8 mln in 2005
- Top online radio destinations: Yahoo! Music, AOL Radio, Clear Channel
- 63% of US kids and teens do not download copyrighted content being afraid of virus
- 12.3 mln US households to listen to podcasts by 2010
- UK digital music market: iTunes - 44%, AllOfMP3.com - 14%, Napster - 8%
- Global music revenues down 4% to $21 bln in 2005
- European online music sales to generate $4.7 bln in 2011
- 41% of CD revenues in 2005 ame from heavy buyers
- 1 bln iTunes tracks sold
- 10% of digital music players in the US sold through Amazon
- MP3 players with HDD grew 549% in Australia in 2005
- 38% of teenagers are interested in buying digital music videos
- Top music sites: Yahoo! Music, AOL Music, iTunes
- Most of consumers willing to pay $1.75 per ringtone
- 75% of music fans say CDs are too expensive
- Digital music to be a $8.2 bln market by 2010
- Ringtone sales reached $600 mln in 2005, Candy Shop by 50 Cent top seller
- Digital music was a $1.1 bln industry in 2005
- 500K Napster subscribers
- Digital music player accessories generated $412 mln in Q1-Q3 2005
- 650 HD radio stations in the US
- 6 mln XM Radio subscribers, 3.3 mln Sirius subscribers
- 20 mln digital music tracks sold in the last week of 2005
- Album sales down 7.2% in 2005
- CD and digital album sales down 8% in 2005
- 28 mln of US cars to support auxiliary audio-in jacks by 2011
- Music CD sales down 7% in 2005
- Sales of top 10 albums down 40% during Thanksgiving week 2005
- 80% of MP3 player buyers in China and Korea have an MP3 player already
- 15% of European Internet users download illegal music, 5% buy it in legal online stores
- Top music retailers in Q3 2005: Wal-Mart, Best Buy, Target, Amazon.com
- 4% of all music sold in the first half of 2005 was digital
- 34% of wireless subscribers interested in mobile digital music
- 59% of iPod owners are interested in multimedia phone
- 47% of young Americans find new music on the Internet, 27% - on the radio
- 51% of online teens download music online
- Music subscription services up 150% in 2004, 109% in 2005, 45% in 2006
- Apple to own 41% of music player market by 2006
- 16% of all music sold in Europe and North America in 2010 will be sold online
- Streaming and download media business to reach $1,378,000,000 in 2005
- 31% of digital music spending comes from women
- 945.5 mln digital music players shipped by 2009, $145.4 bln industry
- Most popular online radio stations: Yahoo! Music, AOL Radio, Clear Channel
- Digital music sales generated $790 mln in the first half of 2005
- 78% of illegal music downloading in Canada is done by 12-24 year olds
- 59.6% of Web radio listeners are male
- Satellite radio market: XM - 4.4 mln customers, Sirius - 2.1 mln
- In Japan $122.1 mln worth of music is sold through cell phones, $4.8 mln - through PCs
- 41% of American MP3 player owners would not pay more than $10 a month for music subscription
- 50% of digital music player owners have less than 100 songs on them
- 6% of mobile phone owners have downloaded full songs to their phones
- Most popular online radio networks: ClearChannel, Yahoo! Music, AOL Radio
- Digital downloads account for 2% of UK music market
- 41% of US digital music player owners are willing to pay $10 a month maximum for music
- 98% of Japanese mobile music downloads were to cell phones
- 29% of all music sold in the US in 2004 was burned to a CD
- 46.77% of BitTorrent traffic is video
- 61.44% of P2P traffic is video, 11.34% is audio
- Top 10 countries for music piracy: Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Pakistan, Paraguay, Russia, Spain, and Ukraine
- 10.8% of US households have MP3 players
- European CD sales 2000-2004
- Music market shares: Universal - 25.5%, Sony BMG - 21.5%, EMI - 13.4%, Warner Music - 11.3%
- 46.8 mln satellite radio subscribers by 2014
- 39.1% of adults 24 and younger say Internet is the primary way they listen to music
- Peer-to-peer music downloaders spend 4.5 times as much on legal music
- iPod ownership is mostly male, ages 18-28
- 180 mln digital music tracks sold in the first half of 2005
- Digital music to become a $1 bln industry in the US by 2007
- 158 mln digital music tracks sold in the US in the first half of 2005
- 10 mln digital music tracks sold in UK in the first half of 2005
- 159 mln digital music tracks sold in the US in the first half of 2005
- 60 mln podcast listeners by 2010, 4.5 mln in 2005
- Online music audience age and household income
- Top online music sites: AOL Music, Yahoo! Music, iTunes, MSN Music
- 41% of digital music buyers switched to digital music once they got broadband
- 56 mln Americans to have MP3 players in 2010
- 23% of US households spend $10-25 a month on music
- 104 mln digital music players to ship by 2009
- US ringtone market reached $300 mln in 2004
- 63% of music players shipped in 2004 were flash-based
- Music piracy is a $4.6 bln industry
- 35% buy digital music legally, 40% still download illegally
- What is downloaded over P2P: music - 74.3%, movies - 2.0%
- Cassette sales numbers
- 14.3 mln MP3 players manufactured in 2003, 40.3 mln in 2004, 74.4 mln in 2005
- 34% of young males want mobile music downloads
- Most Web radio listeners like the selection available and ability to control the content
- Top online radio destinations: Yahoo! Music, AOL Radio, MSN Radio
- Radio audience declined 4% in 2004
- 77.2 mln listen to digital music on PCs, 53.5 mln listen to streaming radio
- Top Web radio destinations: Yahoo! Music, AOL Radio
- 25% of all DVDs sold in the Netherlands are music titles
- Most popular online music destinations: WinXM, iTunes, LimeWire
- 37 mln Americans listen to Internet radio
- 35% of young phone users want wireless music downloads
- Online music market to reach $1 bln in 2005
- 60% of MP3 player owners have less than 200 songs in their collection
- 25,000 CD titles sold fewer than 1,000 CDs in 2004
- Worldwide online music market to top $1 bln in 2005
- Worldwide legal music downloads were up 900% in 2004
- RealNetworks has 1 mln online music subscribers
- 1.5 mln digital music player owners in Australia by year-end 2005
- Brits bought 5.26 mln digital music tracks in Q1 2005
- Only 5% of music buyers would switch to a la carte online music subscription
- 30% of digital music players burn CDs or DVDs weekly
- Digital music player sales to grow 35% to 18.2 mln in 2005
- 16 mln digital music and satellite radio subscribers by 2008
- RIAA reports music shipments for 2004 up 4.4%
- 29% of digital music player owners have downloaded a podcast
- Digital music player ownership: mostly men under age of 30 earning $75K+
- Top music retail sites: Barnes and Noble, BMG, Columbia House
- 46.8 mln digital music players were sold in 2004, 132 mln will sell by 2009
- Top online radio sites: Yahoo! Music, AOL Radio, WindowsMedia, Live365
- 1.8 mln bought digital music in 2004, 3.3 mln will buy in 2005
- Music sales for 2004: USA up 2.8%, UK up 4.5%, global sales stay flat
- 36 mln Americans download music and video, half of them avoid P2P
- 36 mln Flash-based digital music players to sell in 2005
- Top music sites: Yahoo! Launch, AOL Music, Apple iTunes
- 33% of those who don’t rip CDs would buy a copy-once CD
- Samsung predicts MP3 player sales at 35-45 mln units in 2005
- Digital music players to grow 57% in 2005
- Music subscriptions to generate $890 mln in 2009
- 40% want to buy music online, 8% prefer music subscriptions
- MP3 ownership is 59% male, 41% female
- 47% pay for their downloaded music
- 78% of British teenagers listen to music online, most of them on Yahoo! Launch
- 13 bln songs available for download on peer-to-peer networks
- 200 mln music tracks downloaded legally in 2004
- US CD sales up 2.3% in 2004
- Wireless music sales to bring $2 bln in 2009
- Online music products generated $500 mln in 2004
- 16% of online adults buy 99c digital tracks, 17% use subscription services
- British music sales up 3% in 2004, the best year for music sales ever
- Music player market shares
- 56% American Internet users listen to Internet radio
- 92% of high-capacity music players are iPods
- Apple product marketing says QuickTime Player almost reached Windows Media Player market share
- eDonkey has 2.54 mln users, Kazaa - 2.48 mln
- CD shipments up 4%
- Apple iTunes sells 150,000,000th digital song
- Digital format market shares: MP3 - 72%, WMA - 19.6%, AAC - 4.3%
- Apple sold almost 4 mln iPods, 860K in Q3 2004
- Online music market shares: iTunes - 70%, Napster - 11%, Real, MusicMatch, WalMart - 6%
- Portable music player market to generate $58 bln in sales by 2008
- Apple owns 75% of digital music market, Real 50% of online entertainment market
- BitTorrent becomes the dominant peer-to-peer protocol
- $1 bln worth of digital music will be sold in Europe in 2009
- eDonkey becomes the leading P2P network
- Top online music destinations
- 66% of P2P music searches include only song name
- 92% of music listeners list CD as preferred format
- 50 mln cellular music decks sold by 2009
- Real Networks sells 1 million digital tracks in 1 week
- Brits purchase 1.5 mln digital tracks in the last 2 months
- Digital music sales to generate $270 mln in 2004
- Global sales of pirated music generated $4.5 bln in 2003
- MP3 player sales to grow 100% in 2004
- Ringtones to comprise 18% of music market in 2008
- 9.5 mln use P2P daily
- Online media sales to generate $7 bln in 2008
- 48.6% of shared files is music, 27% is video
- Online music to reach $4.4 bln in 2008
- 1.67 British Internet users download movies
- 1000 songs is just enough for 90% of the music lovers
- Christian kids downloading music at the same rate as non-Christian
- Music sales up 9.1% in Q1 2004, CD sales up 10.6%
- Number of online music buyers triples
- Music downloading does not impact sales
- 8 mln Brits download music
- UK CD spending down 32%, singles down 59%
- 50% want to share copied video, 18% - copied audio
- 20 mln Americans listen to Webcasts weekly
- Australian music sales up 8% for 2003
- Apple sold 50 mln songs in 11 months
- 42% will still download music for free off the Internet
- Napster sold its 5,000,000th song
- 7 mln MP3 players expected to be sold in 2004
- 95% of Apple iTunes catalog sold at least once
- In 2003 Europeans bought 3 mln digital music tracks online
- Music downloading up again
- Online and offline music sales
- Pew: Internet downloads sharply down
- By 2007 third of music will be sold online
- Music players market share - WinAmp, Real, Windows Media, QuickTime
- Online music doubles MP3 hardware sales
- IFPI: Global music market share
- E-Poll on music downloading statistics
- Jupiter: $80 M in digital music sales in 2003
- Sandvine: eDonkey up in Europe P2P
- Nielsen: Kazaa users down 40%
- Informa: Digital music $3.9 B by 2008
- Macrovision: 150M CDs globally are copy-protected
- P2P usage stats
- Online music services cost US$700m in CD sales
- 67% Steal Music