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Music sales in US remain steady, but lucrative CD sales decline

Streaming now makes up 34.3% of business, but deep worries persist about the model

Published Fri, Mar 25, 2016 · 09:50 PM

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    New York

    THERE is plenty of good news in the music industry's latest sales report released this week. Streaming is up. Vinyl has continued its unlikely renaissance. And did we mention that streaming is up?

    But a closer look shows that the big sales numbers that have sustained the recorded music business for years are way down, and it is hard to see how they could ever return to where they were even a decade ago.

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