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Over 55s are UK’s fastest growing group of music streamers

06/05/2020

Over 55s are UK’s fastest growing group of music streamers with 90% of new over 55 streamers taking out paid subscriptions, according to new pane research conducted by the Entertainment Retailers Association (ERA). More than 1.1m over-55 year olds turned to streaming services over the past year. Over-55 year olds are the fastest growing group of new users of subscription music streaming services like Spotify, Amazon Prime Music, Deezer and You Tube Music Premium. The […]

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 […]

Top ten tracks played on UK TV and radio in the last decade

14/04/2020

The top ten tracks played on UK TV and radio in the last decade were announced by PPL, the UK’s music licensing company. ‘Happy’ by Pharrell Williams tops the chart at No. 1, followed by Adele’s ‘Rolling In The Deep’ at No. 2 – making her one of only two Brits in the Top 10 (alongside Mark Ronson) and the only solo female artist in the Top 10 – with ‘Moves Like Jagger’ by Maroon […]

SOURCE: BPI - Catalogue's share by decade in 2018 and 2019

More older tracks were streamed in the UK in 2019

09/04/2020

More older tracks were streamed in the UK in 2019 and made up 60.3% of the total according to statistics compiled by the BPI and shortly to be published in its annual yearbook All About the Music 2020. The analysis looked at what were the top 15,000 most-streamed tracks on audio services in the UK in 2019 i.e. any track played over 1m times or more over the course of the year. Songs released in […]

HDtracks.co.uk to close on 31st March

22/03/2020

HDtracks.co.uk is to close on 31st March 2020 according to a recent announcement from the HiRes download site. In a mailed newsletter the company said: “Today we are announcing HDtracks.co.uk will no longer be available after March 31, 2020. After six years of helping passionate audiophiles discover the highest quality music available, we are departing from this amazing community in the United Kingdom. While we are sad to say goodbye to HDtracks.co.uk, we are excited to continue improving […]

UK record label income reaches £1.1 Bn in 2019

19/03/2020

UK record label income reaches £1.1 Bn in 2019, a 7.3% increase on 2018 and the fourth consecutive year of growth according to recent figures released by the BPI, the UK’s recorded music industry association. This is the highest level of annual trade income in well over a decade and fuelled by the continuing increase in streaming income, which leapt by 21.8% to reach £628.9 million. Record label trade income is made up of combined […]

BPI reported over 500 million illegal music links to Google

12/03/2020

BPI reported over 500 million illegal music links to Google to Google with a request to remove them from the search engine’s listings. This was done as part of BPI’s mission to protect the UK music industry from the activities of illegal music sites which cost them an estimated £150 million a year in lost revenue. The BPI passed the milestone of the 500 millionth URL submitted to Google for delisting on behalf of UK artists and labels. The BPI […]