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YouTube remains a hugely popular for young people, but could Spotify really be overtaking it as their principle music source? That's the claim in a new report, Gen Z: Meet the Young Millennials, published by Midia Research...

Tidal’s streaming exclusive on Beyoncé’s ‘Lemonade’ may have been an important factor in the album’s high download sales in the UK in 2016. At least, that’s our reading of the Entertainment Retailers Association...

Paid music-streaming revenues in the UK grew by 65.1% to £418.5m last year, according to the Entertainment Retailers Association (ERA) in its latest annual figures. That helped music revenues overall grow faster than...

There is some sketchy reporting around some figures released by the UK’s Entertainment Retailers Association yesterday: we’ve seen claims that vinyl is now outselling music downloads in the UK, which is incorrect. Go...

The chief executive of the UK’s Entertainment Retailers Association (ERA) has criticised the trend for album exclusives on music-streaming services. Kim Bayley came down hard on the practice in her keynote speech at...

The Entertainment Retailers Association (ERA) has published its chart of the top entertainment products in the UK in the first half of 2016 – a chart that includes albums, TV/films and games.

The UK’s Entertainment Retailers Association also released its annual figures yesterday. They revealed that the UK’s games, video and music markets totalled £6.1bn in 2015 – with all three sectors recording growth...

We've had years of chatter about the extent to which streaming is cannibalising sales of downloads and CDs now. However, British music bodies the BPI and ERA have come out with a report suggesting another trend entirely:...

20% of new cars sold in the UK this year won’t have built-in CD players, claims a new report commissioned by music industry bodies the BPI and ERA. That spells a rise for in-car entertainment based on digital services,...

Here's the state of play in the debate over whether the music industry should shift to a unified global release date: everyone seems in favour, it's just that they'd like the chosen day of the week to be the one that's already...

The morning after Apple launches a dedicated webpage to help people delete U2's new album from their devices is a good time to issue a press release calling the partnership a "dismal failure". However, the broadside from...

Suggesting that music rightsholders don’t support digital innovation is an age-old argument, but it doesn’t seem to be going away. Latest to wield the digital-dinosaurs stick is Kim Bayley, boss of the UK’s...