Music sales Archives

UK CD sales decline slows in 2021

29/12/2021

UK CD sales decline slows in 2021 whilst vinyl and cassettes continue surge according to preliminary sales figures from the BPI. New figures to be released by record labels’ association the BPI using Official Charts Company data will show that purchases of vinyl LPs and audio cassettes in 2021 continued their surge of recent years. Fans kept showing their love of the album on physical format while also continuing to stream in ever-growing numbers. The Compact disc has been showing […]

German music sales grew 9% in 2020 despite pandemic

12/03/2021

German music sales grew 9% in 2020 despite the pandemic with digital reaching 71.5% of the market, up 24.6% from 2019 according to BVMI, the German recording industry association. Retail revenues from recorded music sales and proceeds from the streaming business amounted to €1.79 Bn, up 9% on 2019, with 71.5%, or a good three-quarters of sales, coming from online music use. Audio streaming increased by 24.6% on the already high level of the previous […]

US music streaming set to top 1 trillion in 2019

29/06/2019

US music streaming set to top 1 trillion in 2019 according to market analysts, Nielsen in their US Music Mid-Year Report 2019. On-demand streaming continues to super-charge the US music industry with more than 507 billion streams in the first half of 2019 with expectations of exceeding 1 trillion streams for the full year. This was led by singles and albums by Ariana Grande, Billie Eilish, Halsey Khalid, BTS, LIl Nas X and Bad Bunny […]