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Nielsen has published its year-end Canadian music report for 2015, striking an upbeat note. “Canadians are spending more hours per week listening to music (and listening more on their phones), going to more live music...

It’s a big week for 2015 figures in the music industry, with Nielsen releasing its latest stats for the US recorded-music market. The big headline is the doubling of streaming: 317.2bn songs streamed in 2015 compared...

The number of music tracks streamed by Americans has nearly doubled in the first nine months of 2015, according to the latest figures from Nielsen SoundScan. That’s 232bn streams between January and September, compared...

Nielsen’s latest Music 360 report has some updated stats on music consumption in the US, including the claims that while 91% of Americans listen to music, 75% of them do it online in a typical week, while 44% do it on their...

The week ending 27 August saw just under 15.7m music downloads sold in the US according to Nielsen Music, which is the lowest weekly total in nearly eight years. And in neat symmetry, the week also saw the highest ever total...

Late last week we reported on the booming streaming market in the UK – in terms of consumption at least – with streams up 80% in the first half of 2015, year-on-year. That rise was outperformed in the US though,...

Here are interesting slides from a Nielsen presentation at the recent EDMbiz Conference & Expo in Las Vegas which claims that just over 3% of annual consumer spend on music is on subscription services. It ranks just above...

Now this is intriguing. Amid all the hoo-hah this week about the launch of Apple Music and Beats 1, New Slang Media has posted an interesting blog that posits the theory that Beats 1 has the potential to blow the old diary-based...

The key to translating social media shares into sales is providing personalisation, engagement and priceless experiences. That’s according to a panel of social media experts from Facebook, Nielsen and Gumroad, who discussed...

Nielsen published a preview report last week on US music sales and streams in 2014, but now the full thing is out, with some more details on changing consumption there. The topline figures remain 163.9bn songs streamed,...

There’s a refreshing lack of ‘man the lifeboats!’ panic about the latest half-year Nielsen SoundScan figures in the US, despite the fact that they reveal an 11.6% drop for digital album sales and a 13% drop for digital...