IFPI has announced three additional Global Album Charts, which highlight the biggest releases of 2023 by sales and the top selling vinyl and streaming albums of the year.
It follows ...
IFPI has named K-pop group Seventeen’s FML as the winners of the organisation’s Global Album Award for 2023.
The IFPI Global Album Award is calculated according to an album’s ...
IFPI has named Taylor Swift as the winner of IFPI’s 2023 Global Recording Artist of the Year Award.
The organisation, which represents the recorded music industry worldwide, calculates an artist’s ...
Eleven different albums by male acts have topped the charts in the last 11 weeks – but that sequence comes to a screeching halt this week with the enthronement of ...
Taylor Swift has broken Grammys records as the first artist to win the Album Of The Year award four times. She had previously been tied with Stevie Wonder, Frank Sinatra ...
TikTok users have found the platform a very different experience so far this month.
Since the war of words between UMG and TikTok over their licensing renewal dispute, recordings ...
With greatest hits and classic LPs becoming more entrenched, BPI, AIM and ERA execs discuss the evolution of album consumption and its impact on new talent
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Luminate has released its 2023 Year-End Music Report looking at global consumption and trends in music in the past year.
Global music streaming volumes reached new records in 2023.
Universal Music Group CEO & chairman Sir Lucian Grainge has promised an “extremely exciting and transformative year” for the company.
In the UMG leader’s annual note to staff, which has ...
Digital and entertainment retail association ERA has issued its preliminary numbers for the past year, and they make encouraging reading for the physical music sector following years of overall decline ...