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Finland’s music industry grew 10% in 2019

29/03/2020

Finland’s music industry grew 10% in 2019 with streaming making up 87% of the market according to IFPI Finland’s member companies. The value of recordings in Finland increased by 9.3% in 2019 to €55.2 million – the fifth consecutive year of growth. With other copyright revenues the total value of music consumption in 2019 increased to €78.6 million. The increase is due to the increasing popularity of streaming services, and in particular an increase in […]

ARASHI receiving the IFPI award for Top Global Album of 2019

ARASHI awarded Global Album of 2019

19/03/2020

ARASHI awarded Global Album of 2019 by IFPI for their 20th Anniversary Compilation 5×20 All the BEST!! 1999-2019. ARASHI (Satoshi Ohno, Sho Sakurai, Masaki Aiba, Kazunari Ninomiya, and Jun Matsumoto) was formed in 1999 and released their first single A-RA-SHI in November that year. They went on to release multiple million-seller albums over the next two decades. In June 2019, they released their 20th anniversary compilation 5×20 All the BEST!! 1999-2019 and staged the ARASHI […]

IFPI chief executive Frances Moore presenting Billie Eilish with the IFPI award for biggest global single of 2019

bad guy by Billie Eilish named Biggest Global Single of 2019

12/03/2020

bad guy by Billie Eilish named Biggest Global Single of 2019 according to IFPI who recently published the Top 10 Global Digital Singles 2019. bad guy is the fifth single from Eilish’s first album WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? and was released alongside it on 29th March 2019. The song was an instant hit, topping the charts in more than 15 countries around the world, including the US, Australia, Canada and […]

German stream manipulator shut down

05/03/2020

German stream manipulator, Followerschmiede.de, is shut down following the granting of a court injunction to IFPI and BVMI. The injunction is part of a broader effort to prevent ‘fake streams’. The injunction orders Germany-based Followerschmiede.de, which creates ‘plays’ on a digital service provider that do not represent the actual consumption of music by a genuine consumer, to discontinue that activity. This action is the latest development in the global recording industry’s ongoing strategy to tackle […]

Taylor Swift named Global Recording Artist of 2019

03/03/2020

Taylor Swift named Global Recording Artist of 2019 by IFPI and is the second time Swift has won the award, the first time being in 2014. Taylor Swift had another successful year releasing her seventh studio album, Lover, in August. The album debuted at number one in more than ten countries and reached three million album-equivalent sales worldwide by the end of its first week of release. Three singles were released off the Lover album […]

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 […]

Music listening is above average in Spain

09/10/2019

Music listening is above average in Spain with Spaniards listening to 20 hours of music a week, two more than the world average. Half of the Spanish population declares themselves to be a ‘fan’ of music and mostly listens to it on streaming platforms according to an analysis of data from IFPI’s Music Listening Report 2019 by Promusicae, the Spanish recorded music industry association. The complete IFPI report can be downloaded in either English or […]