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# Nielson Study Reveals Rock Prevails As Most Popular Genre In The US
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/nielson-study-reveals-rock-prevails-as-most-popular-genre-in-the-us/
- Published: 2015-01-14T11:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2015-01-14T11:00:00.000Z
- Description: According to a study released by Nielson Music, rock music was twice as popular in 2014 as pop music, accounting for 29% of the industry's music consumption across album, track. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2015/01/nielson-study-reveals-rock-prevails-as-most-popular-genre-in-the
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According to a study released by Nielson Music, **rock music was twice as popular in 2014 as [pop music](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pop%5Fmusic?ref=hypebot.com),** accounting for **29% of the industry's music consumption** across album, track purchases, and [music streaming](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streaming%5Fmedia?ref=hypebot.com). Rock music dominated album sales claiming **33%** of sales the the next closest genre, R&B, totaling **14%** suggesting album sales, to the rock music consumer, is still preferable. Rock held its own, but fell short to R&B **25%** to **29%** respectively in total streams by genre.

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Pop claimed a surprisingly low amount of the industry's consumption**, totaling 15% for 2014**. R&B/hip-hop claimed **17%**, [country music](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country%5Fmusic?ref=hypebot.com) represented **10%**, and [EDM](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic%5Fdance%5Fmusic?ref=hypebot.com) accounted for **3%. 24%** of the industry's consumption was attributed to a combination of other genres.

The breakdown of top musical genres is as follows:

- Rock – 29%
- R&B/ Hip Hop – 17.2%
- Pop – 14.9%
- Country – 11.2%
- Dance/EDM – 3.4%
- Christian/Gospel – 3.1%
- Holiday/Seasonal – 2.6%
- Latin – 2.6%
- Jazz – 1.4%
- Classical – 1.4%
- Children – 1%

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Music Business Worldwide reports, "These percentages were calculated by dividing total track downloads into TEA (track equivalent albums) and total streams into SEA (streaming equivalent albums)**\*** and then adding the results to the album sales tally.Using this formula, overall **annual music consumption was down year-on-year in the US by 2% to 476.5m ‘albums’ in 2014,** according to [Nielsen](http://nielsen.com/?ref=hypebot.com)."

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