“Digital” went from 981 in 2017 to 1,479 in 2025. “Download” went from 677 in 2017 to 771 in 2025. “Streaming” went from 455 in 2017 to 933 in 2025.

Global listeners by music model, with a forecast
Year	Digital	Download	Streaming
2017	981	677	455
2018	1,009	682	483
2019	1,043	686	518
2020	1,151	732	596
2021	1,206	738	653
2022	1,273	748	720
2023	1,346	759	793
2024	1,417	767	867
2025	1,479	771	933

Machine-translated from Persian by Namafar; the Persian original is authoritative. Read the original in Persian

About this data

The data on this page is global, collected by Namafar for comparison with Iran.

Iranian (Solar Hijri) years run from late March to March: 1404 = March 2025 to March 2026.

Details

Source: Digital Market Outlook
Year: 1399 (2020/21)
Industry: Music and audio
Published: Oct 24, 2020

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