Beyoncé Releases Album ‘Renaissance’: Can She Break the New Music Curse?

Total consumption of current music in the U.S.—album sales, track purchases and online streams of music that is less than 18 months old—shrunk by 1.4% in the first half of 2022, according to a new report by Luminate.  The decline is especially worrying for music executives because Americans are actually consuming 9.3% more music than last year. “We’re talking about ‘current’ music actually getting less popular,” Tim Ingham of industry tracker Music Business Worldwide wrote in a recent analysis.

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