January 2024

France continues to buy mainly French music in 2023

11/01/2024

France continues to buy mainly French music with the 10 best selling albums in 2023 being by local artists and in French according to SNEP the French recorded music industry association. 17 of the 20 best album sales in 2023 were produced in France – and singing in French – with all generations and all musical styles combined, but with rap dominating at the top of the charts. 2023 French Recorded Music Highlights In the last 10 […]

European lyrics and lyric translations get a boost

10/01/2024

European lyrics and lyric translations get a boost as BELEM announces that two major European artists have won grants from the programme’s first Open Call, as it also launches its second Open Call to the industry. The BELEM project (Boosting European Lyrics and their Entrepreneurial Monetization) aims to foster the licensing, aggregation, distribution, exhibition and translation of lyrics to increase the export and promotion of European lyrics and lyric translations. According to BELEM, the easy […]

Local music in Italy continues to dominate charts in 2023

09/01/2024

Local music in Italy continues to dominate charts in 2023 with 80% of the Top 100 album chart according to FIMI, the Italian recorded music industry association. The Top Ten Albums of 2023 are all Italian for the fourth year in a row and nine out of the the Top Ten Singles are all Italian.. Il coraggio dei bambini by Geolier reaches the first place in the Album & Compilation chart (which includes physical, digital and premium […]

MQA and SCL6 get a dedicated content promotion arm

05/01/2024

MQA and SCL6 get a dedicated content promotion arm with the formation of Lenbrook Media Group which aims to commercialize BluOS, MQA, and SCL6 across the HiRes music supply chain. Lenbrook, the owner of globally recognized hi-fi brands like NAD Electronics, PSB Speakers, and Bluesound and the BluOS HiRes multiroom platform announced the formation of this new business unit at Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. The company which recently bought MQA out of […]

Radio Ulyot

04/01/2024

Radio Ulyot is a Russian internet radio station broadcasting 90s electronic music with a CD Quality Lossless FLAC stream, 128kbps, 192kbps and 320kbps MP3 streams and a 32kbps AAC stream. There is a webplayer offering all five streams and an Android app available via a QR code. According to the station it is a “Multimedia independent non-commercial controlled/automated robotic interactive radio aimed at fans of 90s electronic styles.” There also links to their social media, […]

UK music consumption increases for 9th year running

04/01/2024

UK music consumption increases for 9th year running up by 10.0% in 2023 according to figures released by the BPI. The figures based on Official Charts Company data showed that 182.8 million albums or their equivalent were either streamed or purchased in 2023. The UK consumption total was made up primarily of streams, comprising 179.6 Bn streams, up 12.8% on 2022 and more than double total achieved five years earlier. The UK’s streaming market hit another record high in 2023 with […]

Curtis Audiophile Café

03/01/2024

Curtis Audiophile Café is an Audiophile Café based in Barcelona, Spain which also broadcasts a CD Quality Lossless FLAC stream. In addition to the usual social media links the café also has a Spotify and MixCloud presence. Website: https://curtisaudiocafe.com/ CD Quality Lossless FLAC: http://curtisradio.ddns.net:8000/CurtisPhonoFlac To find out more about CD Quality Internet Radio go here. To find out more about HiRes Internet Radio go here. To get further information on: How to listen to lossless FLAC […]