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Is the music business ready for 10 years of hard work?

UK market turned over nearly £1bn less last year than it did in 2001

UK recorded music business on course for $150m+ growth in 2017

Spotify and Ed Sheeran set up huge year for the British record business

French recorded music market up 5.4% – but streaming growth slowed in 2016

Streaming up 37% year-on-year as physical still dominates market

Spain’s recorded music market up 4% in H1 2016

Streaming earned the lion’s share of revenue, accounting for €40.1m (55%)

France launches new albums chart combining sales and streaming

Third biggest album has actually sold more than this week's No.1

At this rate, music downloads will be dead by 2020

Tracks have plummeted by 42% over the past four years

France’s record industry has been cut in half – and it’s still shrinking

Market down 7% overall as streaming passes €100m annual milestone

Streaming still soaring in Denmark – but YouTube’s an embarrassment

Market up 3.7%, but ad-funded platforms contribute just 4% of total income

Spain’s piracy fightback grows teeth: Recorded music market was up 7% in 2015

Streaming jumps up more than 35% to €64.5m

1,500 YouTube plays now officially counts as an ‘album’ in the US

Ratio for single downloads lengthened from 100-1 to 150-1

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

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

Sweden’s 100 biggest songs of 2015: Universal claims 42%, Sony on 32%

Major Lazer out in front, Ellie Goulding at No.2

Physical music dominates UK market – and it’s stubbornly refusing to die

CD and vinyl claim more than £500m of sales in 2015

UK recorded music market grows 3.5% in 2015 – but subscription savages downloads

Subscription streaming generates £251m in 2015

Thanks Adele! Physical album sales went UP in 2015 as streaming doubled in the US

25 claims 3.6% of all album sales in the market in 2015