The BPI has reported that UK recorded music trade revenue rose by 12.8% in 2021 to reach £1.262 billion.
It marks the sector’s seventh consecutive year of revenue growth, ...
The BPI has announced that Ged Doherty will step down as its chair after seven years in the role.
Doherty took up the position in January 2015, and is leaving ...
Is 2022 the year that CD finally ends its three decades as the physical format of choice?
Based on market data for 2021, that result now almost seems inevitable in ...
The Competition & Markets Authority has formally launched its investigation into the UK streaming market.
While the BPI has focused on growing the streaming market, the independent sector ...
2021 produced a significant chart stat: there were more No.1 albums by UK acts than at any time in chart history.
Twenty-seven British artists reached the summit last year. As ...
New figures from ERA reveal the full extent of the vinyl revival and its impact on the physical music market.
For the first time in two decades, the Entertainment Retailers ...
The figures are in for the end-of-year charts and - no surprise - Adele and Ed Sheeran have come out on top.
Adele’s comeback album 30 (Columbia) went double platinum ...
Recorded music consumption in the UK increased by 2.5% year-on-year in 2021, with 159.3 million albums or their equivalent either streamed or purchased across all formats.
The Album Equivalent Streams ...
While full-year 2021 music consumption figures – which will include 2021’s streaming data – will be released on January 4, 2022, the BPI has today (December 29) given a glimpse into some ...
