BVMI In The News

Germany generated 139bn music streams during COVID-hit 2020, nearly a third more than in 2019

New report from GfK Entertainment and BVMI sheds light on the markets streaming figures

US tech giant Cloudflare ordered to block music piracy site in Germany

Court in Germany issued injunction on Friday October, 9

5 ‘fake stream’ sites forced to cease manipulation by court injunctions in Germany

News follows closure of fake stream site Followerschmiede.de in March

Despite pandemic, Germany’s recorded music revenues grew 4.8% to $856m in the first half of 2020

Audio streaming now claims more than two thirds of Germany's revenues

German music business demands nearly $630m in government aid to avoid ‘coronavirus collapse’

'The music industry with all its facets, has never faced such a serious and existential situation.'

Spotify fake stream site smashed by record industry injunction in Germany

"This should be seen as a signal to other manipulation services that we are prepared to take action against them.”

Did Germany just overtake the UK as the world’s third biggest recorded music market?

BVMI numbers are slightly bigger than UK's for last year – but there's a caveat

Streaming revenues topped $1bn in Germany for the first time last year, with total recorded music sales up 8.2%

Streaming accounted for 55.1% of total revenues