http://www.billboard.com/biz/article...-start-in-2014
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U.S. digital sales are beginning 2014 just like they ended 2013: in negative territory. Through the third week of the year, track sales are down 11.9% and digital album sales are down 13.3%, according to Nielsen SoundScan.
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But the decline in download revenue can be offset -- and likely overcome -- by gains in streaming revenue. Between on-demand video services like YouTube and Vevo, Internet radio services such as Pandora and a host of on-demand subscription services, hundreds of millions of incremental digital revenue should be realized in the United States this year.
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2011 streaming revenue (USA) $650 million
2012 streaming revenue (USA): $1033 million
(up 59%)
2013 streaming revenue (USA): to be determined (if it's 40% growth, then $1446 million USD)
2014 streaming revenue (USA): $2 billion might be reachable