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# RIAA Report Shows Streaming And Vinyl On The Rise In US While Recording Industry Dips
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/streaming-and-vinyl-on-the-rise-in-us-while-recording-industry-dips/
- Published: 2015-03-19T13:58:46.000Z
- Updated: 2015-03-19T13:58:46.000Z
- Description: The RIAA has released its official figures for 2014 assessing the music industry's value at $6.97 billion, a 0.47% decline from 2013 valuation of $7 billion.
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Music Business, Songwriting & Music Publishing, Streaming, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-01-21 10:28

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**Despite the slight dip of the industry as a whole, growth was charted in specific areas.** Digital music grew by $140 million to $4.5 billion, up 3.2% from $4.37 billion the prior year. Download sales decreased by 9.5% to $2.64 billion, but streaming revenue charted a 29% increase totaling $1.87 billion for 2014\. Overall digital revenue rose 3.2% from $4.37 billion in 2013 coming in at $4.5 billion for 2014.

Physical music sales declined 5.9% capping out at $2.13 billion, CD albums falling 12.3% to $1.85 billion. A slight upside to the continued decline of album sales was the increase of price per unit with the average CD list price rising from $12.33 to $12.87 in 2014.

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Going back to digital music, unsurprisingly, streaming revenue increased significantly in 2014\. **The 7.7 million paid subscribers upped their value to almost $800 million, a 25% increase from 2013's $639 million.** Additionally, the RIAA report concluded that ad-supported streaming upped it's contribution to industry by 34%, accounting for $295 million in revenue.

**Vinyl sales** saw the most growth across 2014, accounting for $320.8 million in revenue, **up 50% from 2014.**

The revenue distribution continues to ebb and flow as streaming makes itself at home in the new music industry and physical music sales become less and less mainstream. A 50% increase in vinyl sales isn't going to put a dent in revitalizing the music industry, but continuing to work toward creating an maintaining a sustainable business model around digital music is a step in the right direction.