Next Big Sound has provided us with some astounding context to streaming’s rise in popularity. In the first six months of 2015, the company, which is now owned by Pandora, tracked over one trillion online plays in total. The exact figure is 1,032,225,905,640 streams. […] those streams spanned YouTube, Vevo (minus overlap), Vimeo, Spotify, Rdio, SoundCloud, and, of course, Pandora. […] That number is well beyond all the streaming data Next Big Sound tracked for the entirety of last year, even without Pandora’s data (which they only included this year). – Nathan McAlone, Business Insider

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