According to Luminate\u2019s 2025 midyear report, rock experienced the highest growth, while Becoming Led Zeppelin is the top music documentary<\/p>\n
\n\tLuminate\u2019s 2025 midyear report has arrived, and it has some surprising data: Rock<\/a> is back.<\/p>\n \n\tAccording to the report, rock came in second in the top U.S. core genre, ranked by on-demand audio streaming. It sits with 123.3 billion, behind hip-hop and R&B at 171.1 billion. But that\u2019s not all: Rock experienced the highest growth compared to the same timeframe as 2024, with Latin, country, and Christian\/gospel following. The Sinners soundtrack<\/a> \u2014 and the adjacent activity of featured artists \u2014 caused a spike in the blues.<\/p>\n \n\tMeanwhile, Becoming Led Zeppelin<\/a> landed at No. 1 in the Top Music Documentaries So Far in 2025, with 329.8 million minutes watched. The documentary caused a bump in Led Zeppelin<\/a>\u2018s global on-demand audio streams, experiencing a peak at 40.4 million during the week of Feb. 27. Since then, streams have averaged 39 million per week through July 3. <\/p>\n \n\tThe authorized film, directed by Bernard MacMahon<\/a>, focuses on the band\u2019s early years. While not a biopic, it\u2019s similar to films like A Complete Unknown, Bohemian Rhapsody, and Elvis in that it\u2019s introducing the band \u2014 and rock as a genre \u2014 to younger generations. <\/p>\n \t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n \n\tElsewhere in the Luminate report, Morgan Wallen\u2019s I\u2019m The Problem<\/a> leads the U.S. Top 10 Albums with 2.562 million total album-equivalent consumption, with SZA\u2019s SOS<\/a> and Kendrick Lamar\u2019s GNX<\/a> behind it. The latter topped the list of the Top U.S. Vinyl Albums, with Sabrina Carpenter\u2019s Short n\u2019 Sweet<\/a> in No. 2. <\/p>\n \n\tClassic rock albums appeared on the vinyl chart as well as the Top 10 Cassette Albums: Fleetwood Mac\u2019s Rumours came in with 83,000 in vinyl, while Nirvana\u2019s Bleach hit 4,000 in cassettes. As Neil Young once said, rock & roll can never die. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to Luminate\u2019s 2025 midyear report, rock experienced the highest growth, while Becoming Led Zeppelin is the top…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":68115,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[171,35304,975,983,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-68114","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-led-zeppelin","10":"tag-music","11":"tag-rock","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114864940918706335","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}