RIAA Releases Annual Revenue Report
RIAA Chairman & CEO Mitch Glazier remarked, “2022 was an impressive year of sustained ‘growth-over-growth’ more than a decade after streaming’s explosion onto the music scene. Continuing that long run, subscription streaming revenues now make up two thirds of the market with a robust record high $13.3 billion. This long and ongoing arc of success has only been possible thanks to the determined and creative work of record companies fighting to build a healthy streaming economy where artists and rightsholders get paid wherever and whenever their work is used. Collectively accounting for 84% of total revenues, streaming continued to be the largest driver with paid subscriptions, ad-supported services, digital and customized radio, social media platforms, digital fitness apps and others.”
Revenues from physical music formats also maintained an upward trajectory, up 4% at $1.7 billion. And for the first time since 1987, vinyl albums outsold CDs in units (41 million vs. 33 million) and accounted for 71% of physical format revenues, growing 17% to $1.2 billion in the 16th consecutive year of growth.