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Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest: What Have Music Fans Been Streaming for the 1st Half of 2026? · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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  Speaker 2: With the year that is twenty twenty six now halfway
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  Speaker 2: in the rear view. The company illuminate the tracks and
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  Speaker 2: provides data for the music industry, has released their Media Report,
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  Speaker 2: which gives us a sense of changing trends in music.
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  Speaker 2: And the first thing that's clear is streaming music is
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  Speaker 2: bigger than ever.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: On demand music streams are up nearly ten percent globally
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  Speaker 1: from last year. But what's perhaps even more surprising is
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  Speaker 1: that CDs saw an even bigger game.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. I mean, just when you thought CDs were dying off,
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  Speaker 3: sales are up a massive sixteen percent. And actually one
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  Speaker 3: of the big reasons is that K pop fans have
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  Speaker 3: really embraced them.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, bands like ATS and BTS this special edition CD
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  Speaker 1: releases really helped physical sales.
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  Speaker 2: As far as genres, R and B and hip hop
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  Speaker 2: continues to be the most stream deform of music, making
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  Speaker 2: up about one and four listens, but rap isn't dominating
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  Speaker 2: like it used to, Tanya Yep.
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  Speaker 3: With pop, country, and Latin music all significantly gaining on.
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  Speaker 2: It, and dance music red hot l nineteen percent. But
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  Speaker 2: with more people streaming music than ever, every genre is
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  Speaker 2: all games overall.
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  Speaker 1: That's direct from Hollywood