COVID-19 will stop Italian music growth in 2020
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COVID-19 will stop Italian music growth in 2020

COVID-19 will stop Italian music growth in 2020 setting back the best results in five years for the industry in 2019 with growth of 8% which reached a total of €247 million. With the entire music supply chain stopped for more than a month because of the Coronavirus pandemic the effects on the Italian record industry are already being felt. There has already been a drop in the physical segment (CDs and vinyl) of over […]

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Local music dominates Italian charts in 2019

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 […]

SOURCE: FIMI - Italian music industry in the first half of 2019
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Italian music industry grows 5% in first half of 2019

Italian music industry grows 5% in first half of 2019 with streaming subscription revenue up by 32% according to FIMI, the Italian recording industry association. Figures released for the first 6 months of 2019 show that streaming represents 63% of all the revenues of the Italian recording industry generating over €54 million in the first six months of 2019. Subscription revenue grew by 32% compared to 2018 and revenues from ad-supported audio also increased exceeding those of video sharing. Digital […]

1 in 5 Brits listen to pirated music
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Music piracy collapses in Italy

Music piracy collapses in Italy with a 35% reduction in one year according to the latest data collected by the company Similarweb for IFPI and FIMI. The figures show a sharp decline in piracy in Italy with digital counterfeiting and the illegal distribution of online music via web and mobile dropping by 35% in the year from March 2018 and by over 50% compared to March 2017. In the first three months of 2019 the […]