Music Streaming and Social Media Stats Aug 2015
“IPodBattle” by Maxime Felder – originally posted to Flickr as iPod Battle 2. Licensed under CC BY 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons.
A summary of the SonicBids Blog article:
http://blog.sonicbids.com/music-industry-by-the-numbers-stats-first-half-2015
Streaming Plays
Streaming total plays through June 2015:
1,032,225,905,640
According to NextBigSound.com via Pandora, Rdio, Soundcloud, Vevo, Vimeo, and YouTube stats.
Presence on Instagram increased from 51M in June 2014 to 283M in May 2015. Artists’ Instagram followers were up 6-fold in that period.
Social Media By Genre
FaceBook page likes: #1 Nicky Jam
Soundcloud plays: #1 Drake
Spotify streams: #1 Calvin Harris