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Radio and Prime Music plays added to German charts

13/12/2020

From the 7th December radio and Amazon Prime Music plays have been added to the official German singles charts according to BVMI, the German recorded music industry association. These have been added to the weekly charts compiled with GfK Entertainment which already record physical sales, downloads and premium music streams. The airplay charts are recorded for the top 300 titles with a week as determined by MusicTrace. According to the BVMI, “The aim of the […]

Audiobooks by Deezer app launched in Germany

27/09/2020

Audiobooks by Deezer app launched in Germany with an optimized user experience for streaming audio books and radio plays. Due to the local popularity of audiobooks, Audiobooks by Deezer for iOS and Android is initially only available on the German market and offers an optimized user experience with functions specifically for streaming audiobooks. This follows on from Deezer’s recent launch of an audiobook channel in the Netherlands suggesting that the streamer may provide audiobooks more […]

German music industry continues to grow despite COVID-19

29/08/2020

German music industry continues to grow despite COVID-19 with a 4.8% increase in sales in the first half of 2020 according to the BVMI, Germany’s recorded music industry association. The industry generated a total of 783.7 million euros from audio streams as well as from the sale of CDs, downloads and vinyl in this period. This is 4.8% more than in the same period last year (H1 2019: 748.1 million euros sales after the full […]

German stream manipulator shut down

05/03/2020

German stream manipulator, Followerschmiede.de, is shut down following the granting of a court injunction to IFPI and BVMI. The injunction is part of a broader effort to prevent ‘fake streams’. The injunction orders Germany-based Followerschmiede.de, which creates ‘plays’ on a digital service provider that do not represent the actual consumption of music by a genuine consumer, to discontinue that activity. This action is the latest development in the global recording industry’s ongoing strategy to tackle […]

SOURCE: BVMI - Composition of German market 2019

Germany increased streaming by 27% in 2019

27/02/2020

Germany increased streaming by 27% in 2019 with an overall increase in revenue for the year of 8.2% according to figures released by the BVMI, the German record industry association. Total revenue for the year came to €1.623 Bn. After two years of minimal decline in 2017 and 2018, the fourth largest music market in the world followed the positive global trend of the past few years in 2019. Several factors contributed to this growth […]

Album listening declines in Germany

21/02/2020

Album listening declines in Germany with 45% listening to fewer albums than five years ago according to a recent survey by Deezer. The survey in January 2020 of 8,000 adults from respondents in the US, Germany, France and Brazil included 2000 from Germany. The streamer has released further information about listening in Germany: 9% of music listening time is used for albums Almost a third of the time (31%) is spent on various playlists Individual […]

TV and radio are favourite activities of Germans

07/02/2020

TV and radio are favourite activities of Germans consuming more than 9 hours of audiovisual (AV) media each day according to German media association VAUNET. The report entitled Media Usage Analysis 2019 is a compilation of research by a number of research organisations who surveyed Germans aged 14 years and older. The consumption of television and radio programming as well as other AV media remains by far the most popular activity with Germans aged 14 […]