Coronavirus Listener Data: Video Still Rules, While Audio Streams Start to Trickle Back
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billboard.comChristian/gospel and country genres bounce back, while rock, Latin and hip-hop continue to flounder. Week two of the U.S. economic shutdown shows the bottom continuing to fall out for physical sales, while streaming’s decline wasn’t as steep.
Overall streams were down to 24.32 billion -- a 0.5% from the prior week’s total of 24.45 billion -- but that's still a better outcome than the 3.5% decline the industry suffered after March 12.
In these days of quarantine, video remains the one true bright spot. Video posted another increase this week, up 3.7% to 9.776 billion, from the prior week, when video rocketed up 6.9% to a total of 9.426 billion.
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