Dua Lipa, Coldplay and The Beatles have all played a major role in the British record industry earning £519.7 million in overseas earnings last year, the highest figure on record.New data from the BPI reveals that music export revenues in 2020 grew by 6 per cent on 2019, helped along by the “explosive growth of music streaming”.It has also been confirmed that one in 10 tracks streamed across the globe are by a UK artist, with 300 British artists notching up 100 million streams or more.But it was Dua Lipa who recorded the biggest British hit of the year with ‘Don’t Start Now’, which was streamed 1.62 billion times in total.Her second album ‘Future Nostalgia’, meanwhile, was the 10th best-seller of the year.Similar success was achieved by.
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