YouTube streams less lucrative than vinyl sales for UK labels, says BPI boss

Digital music and audio | The Guardian 2015-12-23

Summary:

UK record labels earned more last year from vinyl than they did from the 14bn music streams on YouTube

The boss of British music industry body the BPI has claimed UK labels make less money from YouTube than from vinyl sales.

Speaking at the Music Futures conference in Gateshead, Geoff Taylor said vinyl revenues were worth more than the “14bn music streams on YouTube” in 2014.

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http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/nov/13/vinyl-sales-youtube-streams

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Authors:

Stuart Dredge

Date tagged:

12/23/2015, 10:08

Date published:

11/13/2015, 06:48