Countries 2015 reports

RIAA report (US) - $7,016m (+0.9%)
BPI (UK) - $1,220m (+4%)
FIMI report (Italy) - $164m (+21%)
ZPAV (Poland) - $59m (+3.6%) [WHOLESALE]
ARIA (Australia) - $241m (+5%) [WHOLESALE]

SPOTIFY 2015

http://www.musicbusinessworldwide.co...sses-hit-194m/

The CD sales were up 17% in 2015 from the previous year in Italy. Yas

Streaming is having an initial positive effect.

There is still more growth to be had but streaming isn't sales so the trick is going to be trying to keep people paying to stream music. At some point execs and stars themselves will need to focus on taking less money and getting things done for less.

Yea, here's music industry forecast:



http://www.businessinsider.com/credi...le-note-2016-4

RIP Digital tracks. Nice knowing you.

Streaming ha Teenage Dream era is upon us

with 2012 sales climate, how much would Hello be at now?

if physical sales peaked in the 90's why did many artists in the 90's not release their songs as singles?

Cause singles didn't sell during that time. CD singles were pretty low. The best selling singles during the 90s (each year) only sold up between 600k - 1 Million. People just bought the albums. Plus it was pointless to just listen to 2 songs (1 b-side) over and over again. I'd rather have the full album

Digital track sales (Nielsen Music):
2015: 964.76 million
2012: 1.336 billion

Hello was sold in 4,477,501 copies to-date so let's say 6.2m

thanks. was 2012 the top year btw? also the sales in 2016 compared to 2015 have plummeted, but the largest bulk of its sales are from 2015 anyway...

Yea, in 2012 was sold 1.336 billion digital tracks

Physical singles sold very well in the 1990s! At least one song went double-platinum every year 1989-98 except for 1994! Remember these singles cost $3.50 or more, so basically double these certifications and you get an equivalence to digital downloads.

Labels got greedy and started trying to force listeners to buy the entire albums. This led to stores selling imported singles from other countries where the labels released the songs for singles. Out of spite, I would buy the imported single of songs I liked instead of the entire album, because the US labels earned nothing off the sales of imported singles lol!

I'm actually compiling a list of all of the multi-platinum physical singles to sell at least 2 million copies between 1989-99. Give me some time to do the research though.

Tomorrow at 11:30 BST (6:30 EDT) is IFPI press conference about global music industry in 2015. I have access to transmission so I'll post some news here.

Edit: It's telecom conference in London so I shoul call IFPI to join event. International call? No way

Global Music Report:

* Recording industry up 3.2% to 13m EUR in 2015.
* 68m paying subscribers
* 45% of industry revenue comes from digital services
* '25' by Adele was sold in 17.4m copies (including SEA & TEA)

Report is here: http://www.ifpi.org/downloads/GMR2016.pdf

the sales of 25 does not include streaming tho