Fascinating starts from AlphaData, for the United States music streaming market:
- In 2019 Audio on-demand streams reached a total of 705,8 billion streams, an increase of 171,2 billion from 2018
- In 2018, 36,3 million different songs were streamed.
- Average streams per song in 2018: 14.7.
- The number of different songs streamed increased by 3.1 million in 2018 and 4.9 in 2017.
- 2017 Average streams per song in tiers:
- Top 50 songs: 293.9 million
- Next 450: 89.6 million
- Next 4,500: 21,5 million
- Next 45,000: 2.8 million
- Next 450,000: 170 thousand
- Rest of 32,7 million songs: 737 streams
- The top 25 songs of 2019 averaged 464.7 million streams, or 1.6% of total streams.
- Consumption breakdown of audio streams by release period In 2018:
- New (less than 8 weeks): 10.8%
- Recent (between 8 and 78 weeks): 27.0%
- Catalog (between 78 and 156 weeks): 13.5%
- Deep Catalog (over 156 weeks): 45.9%
- Just an amazing detail about songs sold: the number of titles decreased from 7.1 million in 2017 to 6.7 million in 2018)
Streaming Machinery 