The annual report issued by the "Nielsen Music Foundation" showed the number of times listening to music recordings from music broadcasting services, on demand, such as "YouTube", "Spotify" and "Amazon Music" to more than one trillion records during the past year, for the first time .
According to the report, the song "Old Town Road" by the American singer Lil Naz Naz, topped the list of the most heard songs over the past year, as I heard on the electronic services 2.5 billion times.
2019 was also a good year for singer Post Malone, whose song "Sunflower" I heard more than 1.5 billion times. The list of most notable singers of the past year included Billy Ilish, Taylor Soft and Lizo.
According to Nielsen, "YouTube" was the most used to listen to music in the world, while Spotify came second in most markets, according to the website "CNet.com" specializing in technology issues.
The Nielsen Music data pointed to the rapid growth of the online music broadcasting sector, which in a few years surpassed the digital music download sector, as the main business model for the music industry in the world.
These services have also changed the relationship between listeners and music. Instead of buying music to listen to it, the user pays a monthly amount in exchange for listening to everything he wants, through services such as "Spotify" and "Apple Music", and listening to it for free in exchange for the ads appearing, Through sites like «YouTube».
Listening to records from music broadcasting services, upon request, has reached more than one trillion times.