Music Streaming and Album Sales Are Down During Coronavirus Pandemic

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Alpha Data, an analytics provider that powers the Rolling Stone Charts, shows that streams dropped 7.6% during the week of March 13th to March 19th — the week that Americans self-quarantined and restaurants, bars, and other non-essential outlets closed. Programmed streams (like Pandora) dropped 9% whereas on-demand streams dropped 7.3%. As Rolling Stone points out, dropoffs like this are usually only seen around holiday weeks focused on gatherings, like Christmas.

Album sales and digital song sales didn’t do well during that same time range, either. Physical album sales dropped a whopping 27.6%, digital album sales fell 12.4%, and digital song sales decreased by 10.7%. This includes the $4.3 million in sales on Bandcamp last Friday when the company waived its cut of sales to support artists. Physical sales are expected to fall even farther this week because Amazon will cease stocking vinyl records due to coronavirus.

The genres that saw the highest dropoff in listeners compared to their regular trends were pop, rap, R&B, and Latin music. However, three genres actually saw an increase in streams: classical (up 1.5%), folk (bumped 2.9%), and children’s music (which saw the biggest increase of all with 3.8%)

https://consequenceofsound.net/2020/03/music-streaming-album-sales-down-coronavirus/

[blankpaper 21]

Sales makes sense but it’s weird that streaming’s down 

[Gypsy 3,826]

Makes sense.

I do most my music streaming on the go such as on the train to uni, studying at uni, in the car and in the gym ect 
Right now as I'm studying from home I'm watching movies and TV more.

[dynamite 59,691]

Why streaming? Everyone's at home 

[dynamite 59,691]

1 minute ago, Gypsy said:

Makes sense.

I do most my music streaming on the go such as on the train to uni, studying at uni, in the car and in the gym ect 
Right now as I'm studying from home I'm watching movies and TV more.

Oh tbh true 

I always listen to music when I go out but... Can't now 

[LateToCult 40,904]

cHroMATicA iS GOnnA geT A StreaMIng BoOsT

[Sassy McSass 814]

I think the streaming maybe is because of the general mood these days. The fear, feeling trapped at home, fearing for our jobs. I haven’t listened to much music lately because I’m just so sad most of the time I don’t even feel like it. 

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7 minutes ago, blankpaper said:

Sales makes sense but it’s weird that streaming’s down 

 

5 minutes ago, Gypsy said:

Makes sense.

I do most my music streaming on the go such as on the train to uni, studying at uni, in the car and in the gym ect 
Right now as I'm studying from home I'm watching movies and TV more.

 

[pedrohemg 7,802]

Because many people don't care about music while at home. They'll use this forced free time to watch movies, TV series, etc.

[GaGaAst 13,023]

I hardly listen to music at home. Most listen during travel. So not surprising 

[blankpaper 21]

I had no idea people don’t listen to music all day. I have spotify going 12+ hrs everyday  

[Runway 27,876]

Well yeah, why would you be glued to your earpods ignoring everyone while your family is at home

[Jose P 23,341]

3 minutes ago, Runway said:

Well yeah, why would you be glued to your earpods ignoring everyone while your family is at home

Exactly what I’m doing 

[Perezchristian 63]

Literally The weeknd is gonna do 400k first week 🤔🤔

[Ally Campana 15,284]

True. I play my little Stupid Love playlist and put it on repeat at a low volume and that’s it. Really not in the mood for actually listening to music these days. I don’t know why.