The recorded music business has been so beat up, for so long, that flat still counts as up for these guys. So don’t mind them while they light a victory cigar with this new report from the RIAA, the labels’ U.S. trade group, which says streaming music sales from the likes of Spotify are picking up the slack for declining iTunes sales and CD sales.
Source: 2015 Streaming Music Sales Are Up, Overall Sales Flat, Says RIAA | Re/code