UK music consumption up again, as British artists fill top ten of 2022
completemusicupdate.comMusic consumption in the UK was up again in 2022 – or so says record industry trade group BPI in its customary end-of-year stats pack focused on how much music was streamed by and sold to British consumers in the last twelve months.Based on its crunching of Official Charts Company data, the BPI reckons that 159.3 billion audio streams occurred on digital music platforms in the UK last year, up 8.2% on 2021.
This means that, in the average week, more than three billion audio streams are being played by British consumers across the various music services.
Good times.If you do the magical (and only slightly mysterious) maths that equates streams to album sales, streaming accounted for 86.1% of recorded music sales last year, in terms of units rather than cash through the till.
As for the other 13.9%, that comes from the sale of downloads, CDs, vinyl and cassettes, of course.Which of those sold the most?
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