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Enlarge Image Taylor Swift denied songs like Bad Blood to Spotify listeners in 2015, but streaming still drove the market to grow by a 15-year high. twitter.com/taylorswift13 Remember 2015? When we all had bad blood and couldn't feel our faces when we were uptown funkin'? Turns out 2015 was the most successful year the music industry has seen in 15 years, according to new figures. That's in terms of growth, anyway: people don't spend anywhere near as much on music as they did in the heady days of the early 2000s before digital music, piracy and streaming turned the market upside down. But the amount of money music fans are spending is growing - and in 2015, the industry grew by 5 percent, taking revenue to almost billion. Those figures come from industry analyst Futuresource, which analysed revenue from packaged sales, of CDs, vinyl and other physical media, as well as subscription services such as Spotify and Apple Music, and pay-per-download outlets including i Tunes. In 2016, streaming has reached new levels of legitimacy following last December's belated arrival of the Beatles on Spotify, Apple Music blasting to 13 million paid subscribers and big-name albums launching on Tidal. But streaming hasn't been fully embraced by the whole world just yet: music fans in Germany and Japan, for example, still spend most of their money on CDs. From wax cylinders to Auto- Tune: The technology.
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