UK’s music streaming market hit record high in 2023, per report by British trade bodyThe British Phonographic Industry (BPI) has published its 2023 report on music consumption, with the results showing a ninth consecutive annual rise in the UK’s consumption of recorded music.

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According to the report, the UK’s streaming market hit another record high last year with 179.6 billion audio streams accumulated across the 12 months – a 12.8 percent increase from the previous year and nearly double the total achieved five years earlier.
Streaming now accounts for 87.7 percent of the UK music market, compared to 63.6 percent in 2018.
Meanwhile, overall music consumption – with sales and streams combined – increased by 10 percent to 182.8 million albums (or their equivalent) in 2023.
Notably, data revealed that female artists fueled the growth in streaming consumption, having spent a record-breaking 31 out of 52 weeks at No.1 on the UK’s Official Singles Chart in 2023 – the highest since the charts launched in 1952.
Leading the way is Miley Cyrus’s Flowers, which topped the charts for 10 weeks; the song also proved to be the year’s biggest hit, clocking in at a whopping 198 million streams.
In addition, nearly half (48.5 percent) of the tracks that reached the Top 10 of the weekly Official Singles Chart last year were by women, either solo or in collaboration with other artists. This represented their highest annual share of Top 10 hits this century.
“Whilst work continues towards achieving full representation for women across the music industry, 2023 has been a brilliant year for women in the Official Charts,” BPI Chief Executive Dr Jo Twist OBE says of the achievement.
“Women spent more weeks at No.1 on the Official Singles Chart than in any previous year, while seven of the ten biggest tracks were by women. This should be celebrated, but without complacency, and our work in the music industry continues to ensure that this becomes the norm.”
Read the full report at BPI’s website.
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Recent Classical Highlights for December 2023We're catching up on some Grammy nominees and, of course, there were the holiday music releases, but along with all of those are some stand-out performances worth sampling. French mezzo-soprano Lea Desandre recorded a wide-ranging program of love songs. Speaking of French music, Xavier Phillips (pictured) and Cédric Tiberghien collaborated to cover all of Fauré's music for cello. Two other noteworthy new releases cover music by Arvo Pärt, one by Cappella Romana and one by the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir. Enjoy!

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Give Back Through Music Announces Leslie West Tribute Concert To Benefit MusiCaresGive Back Through Music (GBTM) is producing its first annual American Classics concert, celebrating legendary American music icons who have left us. Scheduled for January 23rd at The Canyon in Agoura Hills, CA, the show pays tribute to Leslie West, co-founder, guitarist and co-lead vocalist of the rock band Mountain.

One of the most admired pioneers of rock guitar, Leslie has influenced many of today’s artists some of which are performing in this concert. The night will be hosted by Eddie Trunk and includes performances by Steve Lukather, Orianthi, Richie Kotzen, Jesse Hughes, Stephen Perkins and over twenty more artists.

“It’s wonderful to see all of our friends joining-in to pay tribute to Leslie and to support a great cause that Leslie felt so strongly about,” said Fabrizio Grossi, co-founder of GBTM. “We are building an immersive experience for the fans and especially for our high-level donors, who will have the opportunity to meet the artists.”

Give Back Through Music has chosen MusiCares as the beneficiary of this fundraiser. MusiCares has done so much towards the wellbeing of musicians, and was a favorite charity of Leslie’s.

“We love and embrace the MusiCares mission, ‘to help the humans behind music because music gives so much to the world’,” says Marc Reiser, co-founder of GBTM. “We’re so aligned as partners, because we empower music fans to give back and with this concert, to raise money for artists in need. We are especially drawn to the work they are doing to help fight hardship, by offering mental health and addiction recovery programs”.

Yamaha International is a founding sponsor of GBTM, and Dean Guitars is also helping to sponsor this show. GBTM will display items that will be included in an online auction in the weeks following the show, and the nonprofit will give away swag and gear during the show, to round-out the fan experience.

To purchase tickets:

Give Back Through Music Presents American Classics: Honoring Leslie West

About Give Back Through Music

We are a Los Angeles based nonprofit with the mission of producing exclusive music and event experiences that empower music fans to help charities advancing human and animal welfare.

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LG’s new DukeBox speaker has vacuum tube audio and a transparent OLED displayLG has revealed an intriguing new smart speaker, the DukeBox, set to be on display at Las Vegas’s CES 2024 consumer tech show next week.

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As CES 2024 nears, LG has started teasing a range of cool gadgets, such as an AI-powered ‘smart home assistant’ that plays music based on your mood. The DukeBox, however, has the potential to be the most attractive piece of kit to audiophiles.
The DukeBox smart speaker merges vintage vacuum tube audio with a modern transparent OLED panel. Vacuum tube audio, for those that don’t know, refers to using vacuum tubes (electron tubes) in amplifiers or sound systems. These tubes, largely replaced by transistors today, enhance audio signals by controlling the flow of electrons. Vacuum tube audio is renowned for warm, harmonic sound.
The technology blends with front-facing bottom and top 360-degree speakers, creating “an immersive audio experience that surrounds the listener”. The device’s retro jukebox-esque look showcases the visible vacuum pipes, while its OLED display offers adjustable transparency.
The DukeBox, a mix of nostalgia and modernity, functions like a smart speaker but extends beyond music, capable of playing movies or, for example, a cosy fireplace on its transparent OLED display.
This is by far no the only piece of kit being unveiled at CES 2024. The brand recently unveiled the Smart Home AI Assistant, a small AI-powered two-legged robot that, as well as acting as a pet monitor that can interact with smart home appliances, can play you music based on your mood when you come home.
LG hasn’t yet disclosed release dates or prices for its DukeBox smart speaker, but LG says more details will come during CES.
Find out more about the DukeBox via the LG Newsroom and buy tickets for CES 2024 at CES.
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Social media teaser hints new Justice music imminentLegendary French duo Justice have released a teaser of new music that is hoped to come our way later in 2024.

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In a post on social media yesterday (2 January), the duo shared a 30-second video titled “Happy New Year” showcasing the new unnamed track alongside clips of a UV meter.
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It was revealed back in June 2023 that the duo was to return from their five-year hiatus. Ed Banger label founder Pedro Winter – AKA Busy P – broke the news in an interview on French radio station France Inter, declaring “The return of Justice. Now it’s official. I can tell you now. There will be a new album and a new tour in 2024.”
Winter first worked with the pair in 2007 as they released their debut LP Cross, and also revealed that listening to this forthcoming record gave him the same goosebumps as when he first heard Cross.
The upcoming album will be the fourth from the French duo, marking a return from Woman, which was released in 2016.
While Justice have been on a hiatus, it didn’t stop them from sharing a previously unheard demo of their classic 2007 track D.A.N.C.E in 2022 to celebrate 15 years since the album’s release.
Further information surrounding the duo’s fourth album is limited at this time, but we’ll keep you posted, so stay tuned to MusicTech in the meantime.
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Dillon Francis: “As a music producer, you get to this level and then you’re expected to be amazing all the time and I feel like I’m not.”EDM producer Dillon Francis has opened up about the pressures of expectations in the music industry, revealing that enrolling on a music production course and attending gigs “re-inspired” him to make his latest album.

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Discussed in a new interview with MusicTech, the LA-based artist remarks on a period of creative block in January 2023, when opening Ableton Live felt like “opening a newspaper”, he says.
“As a music producer,” he goes on, referring to a feeling of imposter syndrome, “you get to this level and then you’re expected to be amazing all the time and I feel like I’m not.”
According to Francis, who released his latest album This Mixtape Is Fire TOO in December, six sessions at ICON Collective, an LA-based music production school, offered him newfound inspiration.

“I didn’t know what to expect going into it,” ICON teacher Diaso tells MusicTech, “but they were really fun sessions. It felt less like a teacher-student relationship. He has such great taste for sound design. I demonstrated a few techniques and he could just take it and run with it. It was really fun to watch.”
“There’s a lot of stuff in Serum I didn’t know you could do,” Francis says. “I didn’t know you could put in a PNG and make WAV file out of it. You gotta go read the manual for that. Who has time for that? But no I should be reading the manual. It was awesome to go [to ICON] and re-inspire myself.
He goes on to say how he further found inspiration after fellow EDM producer Porter Robinson urged him to attend more music gigs.
“‘You gotta go out to shows. You gotta see people live and keep re-inspiring yourself.’” Porter told him. “So that was a big thing I started doing at that time when I was going back to school. I was trying to check out new artists and search for people that were inspiring me and that was a big part of [This Mixtape Is Fire TOO].”
Read the full interview with Dillon Francis at MusicTech.
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