2019 Archives

UK music streaming tops £1 Bn in 2019

25/01/2020

UK music streaming tops £1 Bn in 2019 recording the fifth consecutive year of growth according to data compiled by the Entertainment Retailers Association (ERA). The report on entertainment spending in the UK contains information on music, video and games sales for the year and can be downloaded here. Spending by UK music fans on streaming services exceeded £1 Bn for the first time in 2019 as overall expenditure on entertainment increased to another all-time-high. […]

Local music dominates Italian charts in 2019

13/01/2020

Local music dominates Italian charts in 2019 with 9 out of the top ten albums being Italian according to FIMI the Italian recorded music industry association. Colpa della Favole by Ultimo was the top album followed by Playlist Live by Salmo and in third place Machete Mixtape 4 by Machete. The only international name in the Top Ten is Queen, in tenth place with Bohemian Rhapsody, while the first female artist is positioned at number 15 […]

US Music streaming tops 1 Trillion in 2019

12/01/2020

US Music streaming tops 1 Trillion in 2019 according to BuzzAngle Music’s 2019 report on US music consumption. For the third year in a row, total consumption growth was up double-digits. The 13.5% growth in 2019 in total consumption was fuelled by the continued growth of on-demand streams. In 2018, there was a 16.2% growth in total consumption and an increase of 12.8% in 2017 over 2016. As a result of consumers continuing to move […]

France mainly buys French music

11/01/2020

France mainly buys French music with 19 out of the 20 best selling albums in 2019 being by local artists and in French according to SNEP the French recorded music industry association. Local talent makes up 80% of the Top 200 albums produced in 2019 with 46 ‘young talents’ having a first album in the Top 200 making up almost a quarter of all sales in the year. Urban music (rap, hip hop, R&B) proved […]

Germans stream 107 Bn tracks in 2019

10/01/2020

Germans stream 107 Bn tracks in 2019, a 36% increase over the 79.5 Bn streams in 2018 and nearly double the 56.4 Bn streams in 2017 according to BVMI, the German music industry association. The figures compiled in association with GfK Entertainment also revealed that Christmas Eve and New Year’s Day produced record breaking streaming numbers. Dr. Florian Drücke, Chairman of BVMI, said, “More than one hundred billion audio streams in Germany in 2019 – […]

Local music dominates listening in India

11/10/2019

Local music dominates listening in India according to a joint study published by IFPI and the IMI, the Indian recorded music industry association. IFPI designed and ran the Music Consumer Study, 2019 across 21 of the world’s major music markets, exploring the music habits of consumers worldwide. India was a key part of the study and the Digital Music Study, 2019 explores in greater depth some of the insights taken from the responses of the […]

SOURCE: BEA Music - Percentage share of music revenue 2018 H1 compared to 2019 H1

Belgian music industry grows 10% in first half of 2019

31/07/2019

Belgian music industry grows 10% in first half of 2019 with 71% of revenue coming from digital sales according to BEA, the Belgian Entertainment Association. Paid streaming increased by 35% and represented 62% of total revenue which together with downloading accounted for 71% of total revenue. Revenue in the first half of 2019 was €29.1 million driven a 35% increase compared to the same period last year mainly driven by the increase in streaming which […]