Harry Styles, Cat Burns and Kate Bush scored huge hits, as UK music fans streamed 150 billion songs.
The overwhelming presence of "best of" albums is also explained by a quirk of the official charts rules.
Under the current system, when a fan streams Abba's Dancing Queen, it is counted as a partial sale for both the album it comes from, Arrival, and the compilation Abba Gold. Because Abba Gold contains practically all of the band's most-popular songs, it will always outsell their studio albums - and most of the year's new releases, too.Abba's greatest hits album received another sales boost after the opening of their virtual ABBA Voyage concerts in LondonIt said music consumption had increased for the eighth consecutive year in 2022, with annual audio streaming figures approaching 160 billion for the first time.The total number of streams increased by 8.
The BPI said it now takes an average of 1.3 million audio streams to break into the Top 40 singles chart, and a combined 7 million audio and video streams to land a UK number one single. Vinyl sales increased for the 15th year in a row, with 5.5 million record sold, the highest number since 1990, when …But Seriously by Phil Collins was the year's biggest-seller.In total, 11.6 million discs were sold, led by Taylor Swift's Midnights, George Ezra's Gold Rush Kid and Arctic Monkeys' The Car.
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