95% of Top 20 albums in France are locally produced for the 3rd year in a row in 2020 and all sung in French according to SNEP, the French music industry association. Despite the unusual circumstances caused by the pandemic, there was a continued appetite for locally produced music with 80% of the Top 200 albums being produced in France (same as 2019). This continues a trend over the past 6 years where 17 to […]
Streaming during 2020 was up 31.8% in Italy reaching a record 1Bn streams per week during the last weeks of 2020 according to FIMI, the Italian music industry association. According to data compiled by GfK data for the association, premium streaming dominated the market this year with a growth of 31.8%, while free streaming was up 9%. The lockdown and the related closure of many stores has slowed down the sales of physical media which after months […]
Germany had 139 Bn music streams in 2020 which represents two thirds (65.7%) of sales in Germany according the BVMI, the German music industry association. Figures gathered by BVMI in collaboration with GfK Entertainment that there were a third more streams in 2020 compared to 2019 (107 Bn) and three quarters more than in 2018, when 79.5 billion streams were measured. The number of all streaming views since the start of recording in 2013 adds up […]
UK entertainment sales boom during lockdown with entertainment sales increasing in 2020 by 16.8% to £9.05 Bn according to preliminary data compiled by the Entertainment Retailers Association (ERA). It was the fastest growth rate since records began, driven above all by digital services, who saw revenues increase by £1.4 Bn over 2019 to a new high of £7.8 Bn. Digital video services spearheaded by Netflix, Disney+ and Amazon Prime Video increased revenues by a remarkable 37.7% over 2019 while […]
Music consumption in UK up 8.2% in 2020 with 155 million albums or their equivalent either streamed or purchased with growth led by streaming fuelled by label investment. The figures were released today by the BPI, based on Official Charts Company data. The increase in consumption was achieved despite the disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, which has had a devastating effect on the live music sector. Demand initially dipped around the start of the […]
UK vinyl and cassette sales surge in 2020 with vinyl sales worth twice as much as music video streaming platforms, such as YouTube, despite the tens of billions of videos watched every year. New figures released by the BPI based on provisional Official Charts Company data for the year show that alongside continued growth in streaming, which now accounts for around 80% of UK music consumption, sales of vinyl LPs and audio cassettes surged ahead in 2020. […]
Holiday music listening started earlier on Amazon Music in 2020 with 3.5Bn streams and 230 million voice requests so far. The Amazon Music holiday programming team has curated hundreds of new playlists and stations such as Christmas Past, Holiday Pop and Feel-Good Christmas. In 2020 holiday listening earlier than ever before with listeners playing seasonal music around the clock and asking Alexa to play holiday music every minute of every day since 1st October. Amazon Music has also surpassed 3.5 Bn […]
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