Media release: Music helped the UK get through lockdown, new insights show
NEW data revealed today by UK record labels association, the BPI, confirm just how crucial music has been to the British public and to national wellbeing during the COVID pandemic lockdowns of 2020.
These insights are based on data commissioned through AudienceNet’s Audiomonitor survey in November 2020, and are taken from All About the Music 2021 – the 42nd edition of the BPI Yearbook, which will be published on 14th April. This authoritative industry annual evaluates 2020 UK music consumption and trends.
Music listening increased during lockdown
These new insights show that well over a quarter (28 per cent) of all those surveyed said they had increased their music listening compared to pre-lockdown.
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The Official Charts Company this week rolls out a major new upgrade to their world-class b2b data service.
The Official Charts Online service, which provides data on the UK recorded music and video market, delivers critical business insights to the industry. Its database spans 25 years of UK physical and digital consumption, holding detailed information on over 502 billion transactions and covering daily sales and streams from more than 8,000 outlets.
This breadth and depth of data equates to over 99% of the UK singles market, 98% of albums, and 95% of video. It is used to compile the UK’s Official Chart broadcast on BBC Radio 1, and subscribed to by entertainment businesses to track and manage the performance of their products and market shares.
The video-sharing app is really the perfect vehicle for Charli’s vision for pop music: intelligent, but with a layer of artifice that’s very easy to take the piss out of – the chorus of “Unlock It” has the title repeated a total of 18 times. Bad for complex lyricism, good for simple to follow dance routines.
“Unlock It” plays to this very specific moment in pop culture brilliantly, proving that
Pop 2’s brief of sounding like the future was eerily prescient – if by ‘the future’ you mean ‘in four years time’, of course. It’s a long game, but one Charli has been stoically playing. In the past decade, she’s proven to be one of our most reliable and chameleonic makers of bops. From 2013’s glitchy, alt-pop debut