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UK Music Streaming Up 80%
- The Drum, Monday, July 6, 2015 7:34 AM
UK music streaming rose by a full 80 per cent in the first six months of 2015, showing the platform’s prominence as Apple enters the digital marketplace with its Apple Music subscription service. Comparing UK listening habits in the first 26 weeks of 2015 against the same period in 2014, the Official Charts Company and BPI noted that album sales were up four per cent, streams up 80 per cent and vinyl hit a 20 year high in physical sales.
