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UK music streaming hits a high note amid the lows of Covid

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Lewis Capaldi leads the way as format accounts for more than 80% of music consumption in 2020

The angst-laden ballads of Lewis Capaldi were the biggest soundtrack of pandemic Britain, industry figures for 2020 show, as streaming of music shot up by more than 20% in lockdown.

Streaming accounted for more than 80% of overall music consumption in the UK last year, when people listened to 139bn audio streams, up from 114bn in 2019. CD sales fell by almost a third year on year, although the fringe market in vinyl and even audio cassettes continued to rise.

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from The Guardian https://ift.tt/2L1hSvT

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