In 2015, the music industry had its best year of the 21st century - CNET

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Remember 2015? When we were all had bad blood and couldn't feel our faces when we were uptown funkin'? Tus 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 tued the market upside down. But the amount of money music fans are spending is growing -- and in 2015, the industry grew by 5 per cent, taking revenue to almost $19 billion.

Those figures come from industry analysts Futuresource, which analysed revenue from "packaged" sales, of CDs, vinyl and other physical media, as well as subscription services like Spotify and Apple Music, and pay-per download outlets like iTunes.

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