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Music Streaming Is Down For All Popular Genres, Except This One · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest well. Most of the
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  Speaker 1: music industry has seen as steep decline in streaming numbers
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  Speaker 1: during the pandemic. One genre is shattering its own streaming records,
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  Speaker 1: and that's country. Since March twelfth, country streaming is up
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  Speaker 1: six percent and for the most recent week tallied's up
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  Speaker 1: over ten percent. Officially, it's best week in history. Every
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  Speaker 1: other genre except for kids in classical music are down
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  Speaker 1: hot new islenced by Kelsey Ballerini and Sam Hunt are
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  Speaker 1: certainly helping with the totals, but the main theory behind
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  Speaker 1: the numbers flying up is that people traditionally turn country
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  Speaker 1: music on to feel better about themselves than lit their spirits.
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  Speaker 1: That's direct from Hollywood.