remains the business\u2019s dominant revenue driver,<\/a> making up $9.47 billion of the $11.5 billion in overall recorded revenue of 2025, the RIAA said. <\/p>\n\n\tThat $11.5 billion is a new record high, the RIAA, continuing music\u2019s growth since the streaming era ended the rampant piracy of the early 2000s. <\/p>\n
\n\tStreaming revenue itself grew 3 percent year over year, with premium streaming subscriptions in particular growing 6.8 percent from 2024 to 2025 and making up about $6.4 in revenue. The RIAA said there are now 106.5 million paid music streaming accounts in the U.S. alone. <\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cThe last 20 years have been marked by unprecedented transformation for recorded music \u2013 from the steady rise to dominance of\u00a0anytime, anywhere streaming options as listeners enjoy tunes from their favorite artists to a resurgence of vinyl as both a listening experience and collectable art,\u201d RIAA CEO and chairman Mitch Glazier said in a statement Monday, calling music a \u201ccornerstone of culture. \u201cAnd now, our industry is advancing free-market licensing, building responsible AI partnerships that enhance discovery, deepen fan engagement and unlock new creative possibilities for how music is made and experienced.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.hollywoodreporter.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vinyl\u2018s resurgence has reached a new milestone, as vinyl revenue surpassed $1 billion in revenue in the United States in 2025, the RIAA reported in its annual year-end report published on Monday. Overall, vinyl sales grew about 9.3 percent year over year, the RIAA said, with overall units sold rising from 43.4 million to 46.8 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2332367,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[367122,23084,384717],"class_list":["post-2332366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-riaa","tag-taylor-swift","tag-vinyl"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Vinyl-Surpassed-1B-in-US-Revenue-in-2025-RIAA-Report.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2332366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2332366"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2332366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2332368,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2332366\/revisions\/2332368"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2332367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2332366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2332366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2332366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}