Breaking: Total Music Streams DOUBLED In 2015

Source: Nielsen Music.
Song downloads plunged another 12.5 percent last year, and a depressing 23.4 percent since 2013, according to preliminary US-based stats from Nielsen Music.  Indeed, downloading is plunging downward, but streaming is absolutely soaring: according to the same dataset, the total number of streams doubled in just one year.As in, gained 100 percent, in 365 days.
Overall, Americans streamed 317.2 billion tracks last year, up from 164.5 billion songs streamed in 2014. &nbs