Robert Plant and Jimmy Web page of Led Zeppelin
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Luminate’s 2025 midyear report has arrived, and it has some shocking knowledge: Rock is again.
In response to the report, rock got here in second within the high U.S. core style, ranked by on-demand audio streaming. It sits with 123.3 billion, behind hip-hop and R&B at 171.1 billion. However that’s not all: Rock skilled the very best development in comparison with the identical timeframe as 2024, with Latin, nation, and Christian/gospel following. The Sinners soundtrack — and the adjoining exercise of featured artists — brought on a spike within the blues.
In the meantime, Becoming Led Zeppelin landed at No. 1 within the Prime Music Documentaries So Far in 2025, with 329.8 million minutes watched. The documentary brought on a bump in Led Zeppelin‘s world on-demand audio streams, experiencing a peak at 40.4 million throughout the week of Feb. 27. Since then, streams have averaged 39 million per week via July 3.
The licensed movie, directed by Bernard MacMahon, focuses on the band’s early years. Whereas not a biopic, it’s just like movies like A Full Unknown, Bohemian Rhapsody, and Elvis in that it’s introducing the band — and rock as a style — to youthful generations.
Elsewhere within the Luminate report, Morgan Wallen’s I’m The Problem leads the U.S. Prime 10 Albums with 2.562 million whole album-equivalent consumption, with SZA’s SOS and Kendrick Lamar’s GNX behind it. The latter topped the record of the Prime U.S. Vinyl Albums, with Sabrina Carpenter’s Short n’ Sweet in No. 2.
Basic rock albums appeared on the vinyl chart in addition to the Prime 10 Cassette Albums: Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours got here in with 83,000 in vinyl, whereas Nirvana’s Bleach hit 4,000 in cassettes. As Neil Younger as soon as mentioned, rock & roll can by no means die.
From Rolling Stone US.