From the OCC 06 April 2023

 

More British artists than ever found streaming success in 2022 - 200 artists achieved over 200 million global streams

A new report from the BPI revealed record success for UK acts at home and abroad.

 

By George Griffiths

 

More British artists than ever are taking advantage of the worldwide streaming boom, a new report from the BPI suggests, with 200 UK acts achieving over 200 million global streams in 2022. The new report, drawing on Official Charts Company data from the UK, as well as global streaming data from Luminate, reveals the Top 20 biggest streaming stars from the UK last year.

 

The UK's biggest musical exports have made a big impact abroad, with Ed Sheeran topping the list and big hitters like Harry Styles and Dua Lipa also featuring - but it was also great news this year for acts who have not had their time to shine on the UK charts. This includes North Yorkshire rock band Asking Alexandria, who have yet to secure a Top 10 album in the UK but have achieved success Stateside with a trilogy of Top 10's on the Billboard 200 albums chart, while British-American singer-songwriter Bishop Briggs also claimed 200 million global streams last year, achieving a Top 3 US Alternative Rock single with River.

 

“Streaming has changed the face of music – enabling artists to connect with fans at home and around the world in ways never possible before, and with consumers also able to enjoy unprecedented choice and affordability" Sophie Jones, BPI Chief Strategy Officer and Interim Chief Executive comments, "it is heartening to see this new research showing so many artists achieving such huge success in streaming, encompassing many less well-known names as well as global superstars. "With record labels delivering improvements in areas such as transparency and deal terms, as the market continues to adapt and evolve, their biggest contribution remains essential investment to develop and support artists."

 

Harry Styles' blockbuster single As It Was netted 180.9 million streams overall in the UK. It topped the Official Singles Chart for a total of 10 weeks and was named the biggest song of 2022 in the UK, with its parent album Harry's House also being named the year's biggest LP. Harry's success translated into this year's BRITs ceremony too, where he was the night's big winner - taking home four awards in total, as well as the three biggest gongs of the night, Album of the Year for Harry's House, Best British Artist and British Song of the Year for As It Was.

 

See the Top 20 most-streamed British artists of the year below. The Top 10 - which includes Dua Lipa, D-Block Europe and Central Cee - all reached nearly 400 million streams each.

 

The biggest UK streaming stars of 2022

POS ARTIST

1 ED SHEERAN

2 HARRY STYLES

3 D-BLOCK EUROPE

4 ARCTIC MONKEYS

5 DAVE

6 ADELE

7 COLDPLAY

8 ELTON JOHN

9 DUA LIPA

10 QUEEN

11 THE BEATLES

12 GEORGE EZRA

13 OASIS

14 SAM FENDER

15 FLEETWOOD MAC*

16 LITTLE MIX

17 CENTRAL CEE

18 CALVIN HARRIS

19 SAM SMITH

20 BECKY HILL

©2023 Official Charts Company. All rights reserved.

*Dual nationality

 

Am I understanding this correctly? The person in 200th place got over 200 million streams, whilst Queen, in 10th place, got a bit under 400 million streams?

 

And D-Block Europe outstreamed like the likes of Adele and Elton John globally last year?!?

 

Also, Dua Lipa is British? I genuinely thought she was a Serb for some reason.

Also, Dua Lipa is British? I genuinely thought she was a Serb for some reason.

 

British born, but parents from Kosovo. As of last year she has dual citizenship.

Yes, that's how I read it.

 

According to Wikipedia,

What is Dua Lipa ethnicity?

 

Kosovo Albanian

Dua Lipa was born in London, the eldest child of Kosovo Albanian parents Anesa (née Rexha) and Dukagjin Lipa from Pristina, FR Yugoslavia (present-day Kosovo). Her family is Muslim. Through her maternal grandmother, she is of Bosniak descent. Her ancestry can also be traced back to the city of Peja, Kosovo.

The BPI report 2023 for streams in 2022.

 

www.bpi.co.uk/media/3742/bpi-streaming-report-2023.pdf

 

The purpose of this report is to provide a detailed and comprehensive overview of the UK’s music streaming market, helping to more precisely pinpoint the real measurements of streaming success. This includes unveiling the individual stream counts being achieved annually by the biggest hits, as well as highlighting just how many artists are now accumulating multi-million stream numbers every year. This group of artists not only includes superstar talent from the UK, but many lesser-known domestic artists from multiple music genres who are far from household names but are thriving all the same.

 

More than 3 billion audio streams were generated on average in the UK each week in 2022. Streaming success starts in the millions — the UK’s 5,000th most popular track last year was streamed 5 million times.

1.3 million streams per week are needed to break into the Official Singles Top 40, and a combined 7 million audio & video streams to reach no. 1.

More than 2,000 artists amassed more than10 million audio streams of their music in the UK alone last year.

Edited April 6, 20232 yr by ben08

The BPI report 2023 for streams in 2022.

 

www.bpi.co.uk/media/3742/bpi-streaming-report-2023.pdf

 

More than 3 billion audio streams were generated on average in the UK each week in 2022. Streaming success starts in the millions — the UK’s 5,000th most popular track last year was streamed 5 million times.

1.3 million streams per week are needed to break into the Official Singles Top 40, and a combined 7 million audio & video streams to reach no. 1.

More than 2,000 artists amassed more than10 million audio streams of their music in the UK alone last year.

Some really interesting stats there! Just highlights why the free to premium weighting was so needed if even the 5000th song of the year is doing those numbers.

 

D-Block being so high on that list just feels wrong, but with them throwing so many tracks out, I am not completely surprised by their success here.

And D-Block Europe outstreamed like the likes of Adele and Elton John globally last year?!?

Pretty sure those must just be UK numbers, just by comparing their monthly listeners on Spotify. There’s no chance D-Block (4.7m) would be above Coldplay (63.6m)!

The report says,

However, less predictable perhaps is D-Block Europe finishing as the year’s third most-streamed UK artist. Despite their Central Cee collaboration Overseas being their only Top 10 hit on the weekly Official Singles Chart during the year, it was one of 11 tracks by the hip-hop/rap collective to have generated more than 10 million UK audio streams in 2022, while another 18 tracks surpassed 5 million audio streams.

 

In the report all statistics are credited as Source: BPI analysis based on Official Charts Company data. Only one table is credited as Source: BPI analysis based on Luminate data.

 

More than 400 UK artists amassed over 100 million streams worldwide in 2022. An analysis of streaming data from Luminate reveals that more than 1,800 UK artists each amassed over 10 million audio streams globally in 2022. More than 700 UK artists broke through 50 million global audio streams last year. More than 100 UK artists’ stream counts topped half a billion during the year. Over 40 UK artists amassed at least 1 billion global audio streams.

 

So I think the Top 20 artists are for UK streams only. The OCC article was not clear.