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Dr Adrian York, who started his career as a pop star in 80s band Roman Holliday and is now a University of Westminster academic
But he believes the one outlier in the 2022 top 10 – Kate Bush’s “Running Up That Hill”, the 1985 song revived by Netflix’s, which runs to just under five minutes – suggests listeners still have the attention span for “more nutritious fare.”. Although streaming individual songs has returned the music business to profitability, the continuing decline in CD sales – down 19 per cent to 11.6m – means big-name artists are selling in fewer numbers. Adele’sThe vinyl revival continued with 5.5m copies sold, the highest figure for 30 years. Taylor Swift’swas the year’s best-selling vinyl disc, shifting 80,000 copies. With new releases costing up to £30, vinyl revenues overtook CDs for the first time since 1986.
Leon Neville, BPI’s director of research and insight, said: “At a time when streaming has created unprecedented competition coming from every corner of the globe, it is astonishing that in 2022 British artists were involved in all of the top 10 calendar year’s biggest hits in the UK.”
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