The U.S. Music-Streaming Industry Grew 20% Last Year

The domestic music industry continues to enjoy a resurgence that is being driven in large part by the ongoing shift toward streaming services like Spotify (NYSE: SPOT) and Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) Music. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has released its 2019 year-end report on the industry, and it shows that streaming music revenue jumped 20% last year to $8.8 billion.

Here's an incredible statistic from the RIAA: "The streaming market alone in 2019 was larger than the entire U.S. recorded music market just 2 years ago in 2017."

Image source: Spotify.

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