The Official Charts Company Archives

UK music consumption achieves a decade of growth

06/01/2025

UK music consumption achieves a decade of growth according to figures released by the BPI. The figures based on Official Charts Company data showed that 200.5 million albums or their equivalent were either streamed or purchased in 2024. The UK consumption total was made up primarily of streams, comprising 199.6 Bn streams, up 11% on 2023 and more than double total achieved five years earlier. UK recorded music consumption across both sales and streams rose 9.7% last year marking a […]

UK music consumption increases for 9th year running

04/01/2024

UK music consumption increases for 9th year running up by 10.0% in 2023 according to figures released by the BPI. The figures based on Official Charts Company data showed that 182.8 million albums or their equivalent were either streamed or purchased in 2023. The UK consumption total was made up primarily of streams, comprising 179.6 Bn streams, up 12.8% on 2022 and more than double total achieved five years earlier. The UK’s streaming market hit another record high in 2023 with […]

UK music consumption increases for 8th year running

15/01/2023

UK music consumption increases for 8th year running up by 4.3% in 2022 according to figures released by the BPI. The figures based on Official Charts Company data showed that 166.1 million albums or their equivalent were either streamed or purchased in 2022. The UK consumption total was made up primarily of streams, comprising 159.3 Bn streams, up 8.2% on 2021 and more than double the volume achieved in 2017, when the market had 68.1 Bn audio […]

Rap and Hip Hop reach new highs in 2019

21/04/2020

Rap and Hip Hop reach new highs in 2019 achieving record shares for both singles and albums according to Official Charts Company data released by the BPI. The analysis compiled from both purchases and streams show that singles of Rap and Hip Hop comprised well over a fifth (21.5%) of all consumption, up from 20.9% in 2018. In the five years from 2015 to 2019, UK artists’ share of Rap’s sales and streams increased from […]