42 Music Industry Statistics

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These music industry figures cover the measurement periods and populations identified in the available source material. Estimates, surveys and forecasts retain their reported scope.

Key Music Industry Statistics

The main findings are:

  • Global recorded music revenue reached US$31.7 billion in 2025 (Global recorded music market).
  • Paid streaming subscription accounts reached 837 million globally in 2025.
  • Global physical-format revenue increased 8.0% in 2025 (2025 year over year; Global recorded music market).
  • Latin American recorded-music revenue grew 17.1% in 2025 (2025 year over year).
  • Nearly 50% of people aged 12-35, or about 1.1 billion young people, were estimated at risk of hearing loss from prolonged excessive loud-sound exposure in 2019 (2019 estimate; People aged 12-35 globally).
  • Global recorded music revenue grew 6.4% in 2025 (2025 year over year; Global recorded music market).
  • Global streaming revenue exceeded US$22 billion in 2025 (Global recorded music market).
  • Global vinyl revenue increased 13.7% in 2025 (2025 year over year; Global recorded music market).
  • Latin America recorded its 16th consecutive year of revenue growth in 2025 (2010-2025).
  • More than 5% of the world’s population, about 466 million people, had disabling hearing loss in 2019 (2019 estimate; Global population).
  • 2025 was the 11th consecutive year of global recorded-music revenue growth (2015-2025; Global recorded music market).
  • Streaming accounted for 69.6% of global recorded-music income in 2025 (Global recorded music market).
  • Vinyl recorded its 19th consecutive year of global revenue growth in 2025 (2007-2025).
  • Streaming accounted for 88.1% of Latin American recorded-music revenue in 2025.
  • Of the estimated 466 million people with disabling hearing loss in 2019, 432 million were adults and 34 million were children (2019 estimate; Global population).

Contents

Global music industry statistics: revenue scale and long-term growth

IFPI revenue measure covers recorded music, not the entire live-music economy.

Year-over-year industry revenue growth.

A count of consecutive annual growth years, not a CAGR.

Threshold statement based on IFPI’s reported revenue series.

Market count reflects IFPI’s coverage and definitions.

Regional share of recorded-music revenue.

IFPI recorded-music revenue, not all music-related economic activity.

IFPI recorded-music revenue.

Music streaming statistics: subscriptions, shares and digital revenue

Accounts/users of paid subscription services; not necessarily unique people.

Streaming revenue within recorded music.

Share of recorded-music revenue, not listening time.

Paid subscription streaming revenue share.

Revenue growth, not subscriber growth.

RIAA recorded-music streaming categories at estimated retail value.

RIAA revenue mix; percentages may not sum exactly because of rounding.

Paid subscriptions exclude limited-tier services.

Multi-user plans count as one subscription and limited-tier services are excluded.

Physical music, vinyl and download statistics

Physical recorded-music revenue.

Vinyl revenue growth, not unit growth.

Consecutive revenue-growth count.

RIAA estimated retail value.

RIAA album-unit comparison.

RIAA permanent-download categories.

Revenue share; historical series can incorporate RIAA updates.

Regional music industry statistics and market growth

Regional recorded-music revenue.

Consecutive annual revenue-growth count.

Regional recorded-music revenue mix.

Recorded-music revenue.

Share of global physical recorded-music revenue.

Music listening safety and hearing-loss statistics

WHO risk estimate includes music and other loud sounds, including personal audio devices; it is not a diagnosis of hearing loss.

WHO global burden estimate; disabling hearing loss is broader than music-related hearing injury.

WHO burden estimate, not an attribution to music exposure.

WHO projection; outcome depends on future demographics, exposure and public-health measures.

Economic-cost estimate for unaddressed hearing loss, not a music-industry cost.

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