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Spanish charts to include YouTube plays

12/01/2022

Spanish charts to include YouTube plays commencing from the first week in 2022 according to Promusicae, the Spanish recorded music industry association. Promusicae will be implementing the global framework agreed between IFPI and YouTube on how to add YouTube plays to national sales charts. Although some countries such as the UK and the USA already include YouTube in their charts, the majority of countries internationally have not done this so far. Together with Germany, Spain […]

Music sales in Spain grew by 12.4% in first half of 2022

Music sales in Spain increase by 22% in first half of 2021

09/10/2021

Music sales in Spain increase by 22% in first half of 2021 with physical sales recovering but not to pre-pandemic levels according to Promusicae, the Spanish record industry association. Spaniards spent almost 169.2 million euros in consuming music, both in digital and physical formats that represents a 22.3% increase compared to the same period of 2020 (138.3 million euros) – a time marked by the start of the pandemic, the preventive closure of non-essential shops […]

Increase in streaming overcomes pandemic slump in Spain

09/09/2020

Increase in streaming overcomes pandemic slump in Spain with an increase in music sales of 4% in the first half of 2020 according to Promusicae, the Spanish recorded music industry association. The Spanish music industry has managed a 3.99% upturn in global sales, despite of the pandemic impact on the physical market, losing almost 45% of revenues as a consequence of closing of shops during lockdown. Revenues, according to figures compiled by the association (representing […]

COVID-19 will stop Spanish music growth in 2020

03/04/2020

COVID-19 will stop Spanish music growth in 2020 which saw an increase in revenues of 22.5% according to Promusicae, the Spanish recorded music industry association. The pandemic is forecast to reduce revenues by more than €100 million and the association is calling on the Spanish government to support the industry using ‘fiscal incentives, soft loans and music promotion campaigns to cushion the hard blow that the virus has also dealt to the recording industry’. 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 […]

Music sales in Spain increase by 27% in first half of 2019

17/09/2019

Music sales in Spain increase by 27% in first half of 2019 with streaming up 26.9% according to Promusicae, the Spanish record industry association. There was also a substantial increase in vinyl and an upturn in CD sales making it the best first half results since 2001. During the first half of 2019, music sales in Spain experienced the highest increase since the turn of the millennium when widespread piracy caused sales to plummet. The […]

Young people in Spain are adopting streaming over physical formats

70% of Spanish music sales are now digital

19/02/2019

70% of Spanish music sales are now digital with streaming growing by 50% to reach 2.3 million users according to figures released by Promusicae, the Spanish record industry association. Streaming now accounts for 90% of the sector’s digital revenues ending the year with a small increase in sales. The growth in streaming is being driven by younger consumers taking up streaming subscriptions rather than buying physical formats. Provisional sales figures for 2018 show that revenues […]