British music scenes outside London are thriving, says BPI

completemusicupdate.com:

British people like British artists to originate from outside London. So say new figures from record label trade group the BPI and the Official Charts Company.

Kind of.According to some champion number crunching by the two organisations, 62% of the most popular albums by British artists in the UK over the last year were made by music-makers who grew up, or formed their bands, outside of London.Given how many more artists grow up outside of London than inside the capital, I guess that’s probably not a surprise.

But still, hurrah for the regions! Can we make it an even bigger hurrah? Well, yes, if we remove or hone in on certain genres.

Because, as you might expect, there are some genre discrepancies here.If rap is removed from the totals, then the share of music originating from outside London rises to 74%.