America Counts: Stories Behind the Numbers

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is celebrating the 65th annual Grammy Awards February 5, and the U.S. Census Bureau is tuning in by doing what it does best: provide demographic and business statistics, this time related to categories the awards recognize.

For example, how many U.S. music directors and composers were there in 2021? There were 45,636, according to the 2021 American Community Survey (ACS) 1-year estimates.

Continue reading?to learn more about:

• The growth of sound recording studios

• Employment and retail statistics in the music industry

• Grammy Award winners promoting the importance of statistics through our Statistics in Schools program

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