Activity monitor shows data sent when playing songs

What's going on? Whenever I play a song on iTunesl, Activity Monitor shows data being sent, as if I'm streaming it. Am I?

Data sent is termed uploading. Data received is termed downloading. So no, you're not streaming it.
There are a lot of processes running on your Mac at the same time, many of which need to connect to the Internet to maintain a connection, check for data, etc. So it will send out a small amount of data, and receive some as well all the time. The amount of data transferred is usually very small, and you don't need to worry about it.

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