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Italian music market up 15.1% in first half of 2024

05/09/2024

Italian music market up 15.1% in first half of 2024 with streaming subscriptions growing by 23% according to FIMI, the Italian recorded music industry association. Total revenues were over Euros 200 million according to data compiled by Deloitte for FIMI. Streaming continues to dominate in Italy with premium streaming seeing revenues growing by 23%, bringing the entire streaming segment to cover 81% of the market thanks to the overall growth of 18.1%. In the first […]

Local music continues to dominate Italian charts in first half of 2024

31/07/2024

Local music continues to dominate Italian charts in first half of 2024 according to FIMI, the Italian recorded music industry association. The Top Ten Albums and Singles are all Italian and are on track to make this the fifth year in a row that this has happened. After 5 consecutive weeks at the top of the weekly chart, Icon by Tony Effe leads the Album chart (physical + download + free & premium streaming) with I nomi del diavolo by Kid Yugi […]

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 […]

Radio 2.0

27/11/2023

Update 27/11/2023: Radio 2.0 has become Futura.FM with a largely 1980s music programme. All the links below now point to Futura.FM but have been kept for historical interest. Radio 2.0 is an Italian local radio station in the city of Bergamo which is 40km from Milan in northern Italy. It broadcasts on FM frequencies 92.8 and 93.6 in Val Bremana and on channel 708 of digital terrestrial TV in the provinces of Bergamo, Milan, Brescia, […]

Futura.FM

27/11/2023

Futura.FM is an Italian radio station formerly known as Radio 2.0 based in Bergamo in the north of Italy. The radio station has both an internet radio and a terrestrial broadcasting presence with a CD Quality Lossless FLAC stream, and a webplayer which offers the FLAC stream and DAB and FM transmissions in the Lombardy area. According to the station, Futura.FM is ‘The radio with the sounds of the 80s: those of yesterday and those […]

Italian music market up 14.2% in first half of 2023

30/08/2023

Italian music market up 14.2% in first half of 2023 with streaming subscriptions growing by 18.2% according to FIMI, the Italian recorded music industry association. Total revenues were Euros 175 million according to data compiled by Deloitte for FIMI. Streaming continues to dominate in Italy with 139 million users representing 16% growth on the same period last year. Streaming subscriptions were up 18.2% in the same period. Revenues from the ad-supported services also rose, up […]

Half of Gen Z think that AI is unlikely to replace artists

02/08/2023

Half of Gen Z think that AI is unlikely to replace artists according to a recent survey by FIMI, the Italian recorded music industry association. The study conducted in association with the Municipality of Naples and the Giffoni Innovation Hub were presented at the Giffoni Film Festival at the end of July 2023. The investigation was launched at the Digital Music Forum in Naples on the 20th June this year and set out to explore […]