Music Business Worldwide

Nielsen

After US slowdown, now audio streaming growth shrinks in the UK

New BPI stats show decline in volume growth in world's third biggest market

Hip-hop and R&B loses market share of US streams – but so does Rock, Pop and Latin

Genre still dominates streaming – but with less market share than in H1 2018

Audio streaming growth fell by 5% in the United States in the first half of 2019

Lil Nas X was the biggest track in H1 2019 – but he couldnt prevent a slight slowdown in the numbers

Nielsen expands its radio coverage to 500+ terrestrial and satellite stations in Canada

SOCAN extends relationship with Nielsen Music

Nielsen’s BDSradio integrates with Play MPE

Nielsen launches new feature in its BDSradio platform

Spotify partners with Nielsen to provide deeper ad analytics for brands

Nielsen Brand Effect to be adopted across multiple locations

99.99% of the US population didn’t buy America’s No.1 album in the last chart week

And it was a similar story in the UK...

At this rate, music downloads will be dead by 2020

Tracks have plummeted by 42% over the past four years

Nielsen competitor BuzzAngle starts testing service in the UK and beyond

Firm to expand to the UK, France, Italy, Spain, and Brazil

Adele’s 25 is a very special album – but it’s not a miracle

Just how special is 'the Adele factor'?

Even Adele can’t stop ‘old’ albums outselling new artist releases

Catalogue trumps current album sales in historic milestone for the music biz

Streaming music is too expensive, say a worrying number of consumers

46% of consumers say streaming services are too expensive

Why aren’t people paying for music streaming subscriptions?

New Nielsen report delivers some home truths

Independent labels trounce UMG, Sony and Warner in US market shares

But indies heavily reliant on majors for distribution

Audio streaming volume grows 127% in Canada – but YouTube is king

Video streams up 56% to 8.4bn in the country