The statistic above presents growth of music album sales in the United States from 2009 to 2014, by genre. Rock album sales contracted by *** percent in 2014. However, rock was still the bestselling gerne, having sold ***** million albums in 2014.

Change of music album sales in the United States by genreIn 2012, albums representing only three music genres—country, rock and soundtrack—rose in popularity among American consumers. Sales growth in these music genres ranged from * to *** percent, relatively insignificant numbers, especially compared with losses sustained by other genres in the same period. Sales of jazz albums shrank by over a quarter, classical music over a fifth, and Latin music by nearly ** percent.These figures back the results of recent consumer surveys, in which Americans were asked to specify their favorite music genre. In 2012, nearly ** percent of adults named country and ** percent named rock as their preferred style. Among teenagers, country and rock ranked high as well, taking second and fourth places respectively.Such results are only partly mirrored, however, in hard sales figures. Unit sales figures show that rock was the best-selling genre in 2012, with over *** million albums sold. Country, meanwhile, ranked only fourth and was outsold by alternative music with over ** million and R&B with nearly ** million. More generally, album sales, especially physical album sales, are shrinking as Americans move their music consumption to digital platforms. Album sales contracted by *** percent in 2012, whereas digital track sales grew by *** percent. Thanks to the infusion of digital revenues, the music industry is developing positively and will continue on that track in the near future. In 2012, industry revenue grew *** percent and generated in total ** billion U.S. dollars. The figure is expected to reach ** billion in 2017.

MGD: Music Genre Dataset

Over recent years, the world has seen a dramatic change in the way people consume music, moving from physical records to streaming services. Since 2017, such services have become the main source of revenue within the global recorded music market. Therefore, this dataset is built by using data from Spotify. It provides a weekly chart of the 200 most streamed songs for each country and territory it is present, as well as an aggregated global chart.

Considering that countries behave differently when it comes to musical tastes, we use chart data from global and regional markets from January 2017 to December 2019, considering eight of the top 10 music markets according to IFPI: United States (1st), Japan (2nd), United Kingdom (3rd), Germany (4th), France (5th), Canada (8th), Australia (9th), and Brazil (10th).

We also provide information about the hit songs and artists present in the charts, such as all collaborating artists within a song (since the charts only provide the main ones) and their respective genres, which is the core of this work. MGD also provides data about musical collaboration, as we build collaboration networks based on artist partnerships in hit songs. Therefore, this dataset contains:

Genre Networks: Success-based genre collaboration networks

Genre Mapping: Genre mapping from Spotify genres to super-genres

Artist Networks: Success-based artist collaboration networks

Artists: Some artist data

Hit Songs: Hit Song data and features

Charts: Enhanced data from Spotify Weekly Top 200 Charts

This dataset was originally built for a conference paper at ISMIR 2020. If you make use of the dataset, please also cite the following paper:

Gabriel P. Oliveira, Mariana O. Silva, Danilo B. Seufitelli, Anisio Lacerda, and Mirella M. Moro. Detecting Collaboration Profiles in Success-based Music Genre Networks. In Proceedings of the 21st International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR 2020), 2020.

@inproceedings{ismir/OliveiraSSLM20, title = {Detecting Collaboration Profiles in Success-based Music Genre Networks}, author = {Gabriel P. Oliveira and Mariana O. Silva and Danilo B. Seufitelli and Anisio Lacerda and Mirella M. Moro}, booktitle = {21st International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference} pages = {726--732}, year = {2020} }

In 2018, hip-hop and rap music accounted for 21.7 percent of total music consumption in the United States, more than double the percentage of R&B music sales. Other highly popular genres included pop and rock music, whereas just 1.1 percent of all music sold in the U.S. in 2018 was jazz.

Why are some genres more popular than others? 

Whilst music is a highly subjective medium in terms of the listener’s taste and preferences, the top genres in terms of consumption tend not to fluctuate heavily. The catchiness and familiarity of pop music is appealing to a wide range of music fans. Pop songs tend to be easy to listen to and remember, usually feature simple, snappy lyrics to avoid polarizing listeners, making pop overall less divisive than other genres because it is designed to generate mass appeal.

Conversely, religious music by its very nature is a niche genre in that it encompasses, describes or advocates certain beliefs, giving it the equal ability to alienate some listeners while appealing enormously to others, depending on their religious stance.

The hit genre of 2018 was hip-hop and rap, a music style notorious for its tendency to divide listeners. Singer Drake arguably influenced sales within the genre that year, with ‘Scorpion’ topping the list of best-selling albums in the United States based on total streams and ‘Scary Hours’ also making the top ten. Drake came tenth in the list of most successful music tours in North America, with revenue from his live concerts amounting to 79 million U.S. dollars, and second in the ranking was Jay-Z and Beyoncé with 166.4 million dollars in revenue, artists whose music is also strongly aligned with the rap and hip-hop genre.

Other artists in the genre who achieved significant influence in 2018 include Kendrick Lamar, Childish Gambino, Cardi B, Travis Scott and Post Malone, many of whom released songs that year which garnered hundreds of millions of audio streams. The sheer amount of hip-hop and rap music flooding the music industry has had a profound effect on the genre’s popularity, and musicians in the category tend to be prolific songwriters and active social media users. Equally, artists in the genre are arguably passionate about creating music which challenges social norms in a way that rock music has always been famous for.

This statistic shows the music industry revenues in Sweden from 2009 to 2017, by category. In 2017, receipts from recorded music in Sweden amounted to roughly **** billion Swedish kronor.

The revenue is forecast to exhibit a significant decline in all segments in 2029 compared to the previous year. In this context, the remarkably strong decrease of the segment Physically Recorded Music towards the end of the forecast period stands out distinctly. Compared to the average decrease of **** million U.S. dollars, the decrease of the revenue are significantly more pronounced here, with a value of *** million U.S. dollars.

This statistic illustrates the share of music consumption in India in 2017, based on genre. During the measured time period, regional music had a share of around ** percent of the total music consumption across the country.

This statistic displays compilation music album sales in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2016, broken down by type of music. In 2016, pop albums accounted for **** percent of all compilation sales (six songs of this genre were in the year-top-10 chart). The share of dance genre decreased from **** percent in 2015 to **** percent in 2016, although two songs of this genre were in the year-top-10 chart, namely 100% Clubland and The Annual 2017.

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The global live event market experienced a challenging two years due to the coronavirus pandemic. However, revenues were expected to return to pre-pandemic levels across all live entertainment categories in 2022. Statista estimates that revenue from ticket sales of music events (including concerts, festivals, musicals, and opera) was forecast to reach over ** billion U.S. dollars worldwide. Sports events were predicted to generate slightly higher revenues at ** billion U.S. dollars.

The live event market in Europe experienced a drop in revenues during the coronavirus pandemic. However, as live events returned across the region in 2022, ticket sales were expected to increase to pre-pandemic levels in most live entertainment categories. Statista forecasts estimated that ticket sales from music events (including concerts, festivals, musicals, and opera) would generate approximately **** billion U.S. dollars.

According to a study on representation and equality in the music industry, only *** percent of producers were female while approximately **** percent were male. The share of female music producers has been increasing since 2017, despite the setback in 2020 and still leaving a significant gap in terms of proportionate representation. Gender inequality in the music industry Even though music audiences are as diverse as ever, and recent data has also indicated that male and female listeners account for similar shares of digital music users in the United States, there are still significant gaps when it comes to the representation of different groups. The share of female songwriters across the top 100 songs in 2020 stood at below ** percent - a figure that has pretty much remained unchanged in the past decade. But this disparity not only unfolds behind the scenes: In 2020, just over ** percent of artists on Billboard’s top 100 charts were female, and in genres like hip-hop or alternative, this share was even lower. Grammy Awards The fact that the music industry remains a male-dominated landscape is also reflected in the Grammy Awards. While the show made headlines by merging male and female categories back in 2012, the imbalances have remained. Data on the gender distribution of Grammy nominees collected between 2013 and 2021 shows that less than ** percent of nominees for awards like Record of the Year, Album of the Year, and Producer of the Year were female. And even though the playing field was much more balanced in the Best New Artist category, many artists still fail to get the spotlight they deserve.

The global live event industry faced a challenging year in 2020 as the coronavirus outbreak created restrictions on mass gatherings and public events. Based on ticket sales, user figures fell across all event types in 2020, with only a slight recovery in 2021 as the pandemic continued. Sports events faired better than others, with around *** million users globally in 2021. Users of sports events were also expected to return to pre-pandemic levels in 2022.

In 2017, more than ** percent of French people declared listening to music everyday or almost every day. Since the early 2000s, music is everywhere. Its dematerialization, as well as the development of streaming and downloading, makes it available everywhere, in public transportation, at the gym and even at work. In 2018, 36 percent of French admitted listening to music while cleaning.

The omnipresence of music today

It appears that the proportion of people in France never listening to music reached only *** percent in 2017. Thanks to smartphones and mobiles applications, music is now very easily accessible. Services like Deezer and Spotify had an usage rate exceeding ** percent in 2018 in France. Music is consumed continuously and at any time, especially among the younger generations. In 2017, only ** percent of French aged 18-24 years old stated that they listened or downloaded music on the internet, while 18 percent of French declared listening to some music before going to bed.

Music in France

If music streaming has grown in France in the past years, the recorded music industry income is experiencing an important decline. In 2017, French music record industry income reached *** million euros, compared to more than *** billion euros in 2002. French music consumers enjoy various types of music genres like pop, rock and hip hop, but they also listen more and more English or Spanish speaking songs.

With around *** million units sold in 2024, “SPILL THE FEELS” by SEVENTEEN was the best-selling album in South Korea, continuing their winning streak. BTS' labelmates SEVENTEEN twice broke BTS’s record for pre-sales as well as for general album sales, having also achieved the third best-selling album in the country. General album sales, as well as sales of K-pop albums specifically, have seen rapid growth since 2017. Number of albums sold by each K-pop group The physical album sales of K-pop groups are very high in the domestic market. BTS, one of the most well-known boy groups in South Korea, had around *** million album sales in 2022. In the same year, BLACKPINK, one of the most successful K-pop girl groups, had sold around ***** million album copies. Following these records, K-pop girl group Newjeans, sold over **** million copies of albums in 2023. Although they newly debuted in 2022, they've taken the title of best-selling female artist every year since their debut. Clear sailing for K-pop solo albums K-pop is extremely popular among South Koreans, being the second most-preferred genre next to ballads. The massive popularity of K-pop groups also affects the success of solo ventures of individual members. The top-selling album by South Korean solo artists was"Hello, World" by EXO member Baekhyun in 2024. Members from various highly popular groups such as EXO, BTS, BLACKPINK, and TWICE have all had successful solo debuts in recent years.

This statistic shows the total revenue of the live performance sector in New South Wales, Australia in 2017, by category. That year, about ***** million Australian dollars in revenue were generated by contemporary music live events in New South Wales.

This statistic shows the total revenue of the live performance sector in Western Australia in 2017, by category. That year, about ** million Australian dollars in revenue were generated by live contemporary music events in Western Australia.

In the first half of 2018, general adult fiction books were the most successful in terms of sales with over **** million units sold in the United States during that time, but certain genres were far more popular than others. Unit sales of classics reached almost *** million, outperforming books in the fantasy category, and almost *** million graphic novels were sold. Among the most popular genres were romance and suspense/thrillers, with unit sales surpassing **** million and *** million respectively.

When it comes to nonfiction, business and economics books sold well in the first six months of 2018, as well as biographies, autobiographies, and memoirs. However, **** million religious books and bibles were sold, superseding general nonfiction sales and making religion the best-selling adult nonfiction category in the U.S. during that time period.

The changing book market

Whilst it is true that demand for and spending on traditional media is waning as digital sources take over, books are still a popular source of entertainment, education, and recreation. But, like the newspaper and magazine market, the book industry found itself needing to adapt.

A key example of how the book market has changed is the advent of audiobooks, which allow users to enjoy books on the go in the same way they would listen to a podcast or stream their favorite music. Audiobooks in the fiction category are far more popular than nonfiction audiobooks, suggesting that buyers tend to use audiobooks more for recreation than education and listen to them on the go. Equally, the share of adults in the U.S. who listen to audiobooks in their car rather than at home grew between 2018 and 2019, demonstrating a growing trend towards on the go book consumption.

E-books are another popular, modern way to enjoy reading, though what they offer the consumer is not dissimilar to a print book when it comes to the act of reading itself. E-readers allow users to access any number of books at a given time, and as such e-books have less to do with flexibility in terms of consumption location or habit, but more to do with ease of access (and for avid readers, likely how many book shelves they need).

This statistic shows the total revenue of the live performance sector in Queensland, Australia in 2017, by category. That year, about ***** million Australian dollars in revenue were generated by live contemporary music events in Queensland.

The source forecast that, in 2024, radio station advertising revenues in the United States will amount to approximately ***** billion U.S. dollars, of which **** billion (or almost ** percent) will come from online radio. The total figure is over four percent higher than the 2023 estimated ******************* revenues. U.S. top radio advertiser sectors According to other sources, retail was the leading radio advertiser industry in the U.S., having invested nearly *** million dollars in the medium in 2022. For comparison, the government, politics, and organizations segment ranked third that year with about *** million dollars. Since the early *****, digital's share in the U.S. radio ad expenditure has grown consistently, experiencing a sharper increase after the pandemic. In 2019, it stood at ** percent; in 2022, it reached ** percent. Radio consumption in the U.S. The medium enjoys an almost ubiquitous reach across the country. As of mid-2023, over ** percent of U.S. adults listened to radio weekly. Music continued to attract most of the listeners. A late 2023 survey revealed that country music and rock were the U.S. favorite radio content genres, each mentioned by ** percent of respondents.