In 2018, YouTube was the most popular online music service in the United Kingdom, with 59 percent of respondents saying they used YouTube to stream, download, or share music. Spotify was the second most popular online music service, and was used by 42 percent of respondents in 2018.
Music retail
Sales revenue of music at retail has been increasing over recent years and totaled roughly 1.3 billion British pounds in 2018. Digital music sales in the UK amounted to more than 950 million British pounds in 2018; a significant increase when compared to the 333 million pound total back in 2011.
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Ofcom, & Kantar Media. (July 4, 2018). Which sites or services have you used in the past three months to stream/access, or share music tracks or albums through the internet? [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved January 20, 2020, from https://cdn1.statista.com/statistics/291716/leading-online-services-used-for-music-streaming-downloading-and-sharing-in-the-uk/
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