Italy Archives

Radio 2.0

27/11/2023

Update 27/11/2023: Radio 2.0 has become Futura.FM with a largely 1980s music programme. All the links below now point to Futura.FM but have been kept for historical interest. Radio 2.0 is an Italian local radio station in the city of Bergamo which is 40km from Milan in northern Italy. It broadcasts on FM frequencies 92.8 and 93.6 in Val Bremana and on channel 708 of digital terrestrial TV in the provinces of Bergamo, Milan, Brescia, […]

Futura.FM

27/11/2023

Futura.FM is an Italian radio station formerly known as Radio 2.0 based in Bergamo in the north of Italy. The radio station has both an internet radio and a terrestrial broadcasting presence with a CD Quality Lossless FLAC stream, and a webplayer which offers the FLAC stream and DAB and FM transmissions in the Lombardy area. According to the station, Futura.FM is ‘The radio with the sounds of the 80s: those of yesterday and those […]

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 […]