2021 Archives

Austrian music market grew 11% in 2021

28/02/2022

Austrian music market grew 11% in 2021 with total sales of €190.4 million according to IFPI Austria, the Association of the Austrian Music Industry. Streaming was up 26.5% to €117.4 million with 12.7 Bn songs streamed. The vinyl boom continues with turnover exceeding €10 million. The second year of the pandemic was characterized by strong growth in streaming sales, an ongoing vinyl boom and a renewed increase in music consumption. While concerts, festivals, clubs and live music […]

BTS are IFPI Artist of the Year for second year running

24/02/2022

BTS are IFPI Artist of the Year for second year running according to IFPI’s recently published Top 10 Global Recording Artists 2021 chart. The Global Recording Artist of the Year Award is calculated according to an artist’s or group’s worldwide performance across digital and physical music formats during the year, from streams to vinyl, and covers their entire body of work. The award was announced at the culmination of the IFPI Global Artist Chart, which […]

American ‘super listeners’ listen to 11.2 hours of podcasts weekly

24/02/2022

American ‘super listeners’ listen to 11.2 hours of podcasts weekly with Super Listeners increasingly finding podcast content on YouTube. These findings are part of third Super Listeners Study from Edison Research in partnership with Ad Results Media based on a survey of Podcast ‘Super Listeners’ Americans aged 18+ who listen to five or more hours of podcasts weekly. The survey was primarily intended to find out what podcast Super Listeners felt about advertising within podcast content but […]

Swedish music subscriptions grew 7% in 2021

17/02/2022

Swedish music subscriptions grew 7% in 2021 reaching a total of £196 million according to Mediavision, the Nordic independent analysis and consultancy firm. Sweden’s music streaming market grew by SEK 170 million (£13.3 million) which was caused mainly by an increase in the price of subscriptions as the number of paying households remained largely the same. Mediavision noted that several of the services available on the Swedish market increased prices last year – including Spotify, Amazon […]

Top 50 US podcasts for 2021

10/02/2022

The Top 50 US podcasts for 2021 chart according to the Podcast Consumer Tracker has been published by Edison Research. The Podcast Consumer Tracker is the only podcast measurement service that measures the relative audience size and demographics of all podcast networks. The Edison Research Top 50 Most Listened to US Podcasts from 2021 list is derived from data collected continuously throughout 2021 from surveying weekly podcast consumers ages 18 and older. The top shows […]

SiriusXM reaches 32 million paying subscribers in 2021

02/02/2022

SiriusXM reaches 32 million paying subscribers in 2021 adding 1,152,000 net new subscribers for 2021, a 27% increase from the 909,000 added in 2020. Total revenue for the group reached a record $8.70 Bn in 2021 – an Increase of 8% compared to 2020. Net income climbed to $1.3 Bn which exceeded expectations for the year. SiriusXM’s hardware was incorporated into approximately 82% of new vehicles sold in the US in 2021, up from approximately […]

Spaniards streamed 62 Bn songs in 2021

21/01/2022

Spaniards streamed 62 Bn songs in 2021 an increase of 23% compared to the previous year according to Promusicae, the Spanish recorded music industry association. Streaming represented 85% of the year’s music consumption with 54% being premium subscriptions. 733 artists got their songs streamed in Spain more than 10 million times (161 more artists compared to the year before). 25 of these artists managed 100 million audio streams – 10 more than in 2020. Sales […]