FIMI Archives

Local music in Italy continues to dominate charts in 2023

09/01/2024

Local music in Italy continues to dominate charts in 2023 with 80% of the Top 100 album chart according to FIMI, the Italian recorded music industry association. The Top Ten Albums of 2023 are all Italian for the fourth year in a row and nine out of the the Top Ten Singles are all Italian.. Il coraggio dei bambini by Geolier reaches the first place in the Album & Compilation chart (which includes physical, digital and premium […]

Italian music market up 14.2% in first half of 2023

30/08/2023

Italian music market up 14.2% in first half of 2023 with streaming subscriptions growing by 18.2% according to FIMI, the Italian recorded music industry association. Total revenues were Euros 175 million according to data compiled by Deloitte for FIMI. Streaming continues to dominate in Italy with 139 million users representing 16% growth on the same period last year. Streaming subscriptions were up 18.2% in the same period. Revenues from the ad-supported services also rose, up […]

Half of Gen Z think that AI is unlikely to replace artists

02/08/2023

Half of Gen Z think that AI is unlikely to replace artists according to a recent survey by FIMI, the Italian recorded music industry association. The study conducted in association with the Municipality of Naples and the Giffoni Innovation Hub were presented at the Giffoni Film Festival at the end of July 2023. The investigation was launched at the Digital Music Forum in Naples on the 20th June this year and set out to explore […]

Streaming in Italy grew 17.3% in first half of 2023

22/07/2023

Streaming in Italy grew 17.3% in first half of 2023 according to data compiled by GfK and published by FIMI, the Italian recorded music industry association. There were over 35 Bn streams in the first half of 2023, while the physical segment recorded a slight decline, down by 2.7%. Vinyl continues to show growth close to 10%. Italian music dominates the FIMI/GfK charts, conquering both the best-selling Albums and Singles Top Ten charts in the first […]

Local music in Italy increased in 2022

05/02/2023

Local music in Italy increased in 2022 from 73% of the Top 100 album charts in 2021 to 83% in 2022 according to FIMI, the Italian recorded music industry association. The Top Ten Albums of 2022 are all Italian for the third year in a row and the Top Ten Singles are all Italian for the second year in a row, a trend that is driven by streaming consumption. By way of comparison, the top […]

Premium streaming in Italy grew 42% in 2021

08/01/2022

Premium streaming in Italy grew 42% in 2021 with a total of 53 Bn streams during the year according to FIMI, the Italian music industry association. In 2021, 479 albums from 302 artists had more than 10 million streams representing a significant increase compared to ten years earlier. In 2011, only 134 albums from 105 artists exceeded the equivalent threshold of 10,000 copies sold (physical + download). FIMI said that it was ‘an important signal for […]

Streaming during 2020 was up 31.8% in Italy

17/01/2021

Streaming during 2020 was up 31.8% in Italy reaching a record 1Bn streams per week during the last weeks of 2020 according to FIMI, the Italian music industry association. According to data compiled by GfK data for the association, premium streaming dominated the market this year with a growth of 31.8%, while free streaming was up 9%. The lockdown and the related closure of many stores has slowed down the sales of physical media which after months […]