http://www.billboard.com/biz/article...own-streams-up
Quarter 1 of 2014:
Quote:
Digital sales (albums + TEA) Down 13.3%
Interactive streaming 34.28 billion streams (vs. 25.44 in Q1 2013)
Interactive streaming rate $0.005 (vs. $0.00375 in 2013)
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I believe that at the end of 2015 (about 20 months away), STREAMING will be bigger than DOWNLOAD in the USA.
2013:
Singles Download Revenue: $1.569 billion USD (down 3.4%)
+
Album Download Revenue: $1.234 billion USD (up 2.4%)
=
$2.803 billion USD combined
vs.
Streaming Revenue:
$1.439 billion USD (up 39.3%)
Download will continue to drop year by year. Streaming will continue to increase year by year. At the near future, the two lines will cross. This will happen in about 20 months from now.