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Lewis Capaldi was the UK's best-selling artist of 2019, as the music, the higher consumption in the fifth year in a row.

The Scottish star had both The Top Album and single of the year, with his ballad Somebody you Loved, racking up 228 million streams.

The industry is now dominated by streaming fans stood up to 114 billion songs in The Last year, a new record.

the Vinyl Sales also rose again. Liam Gallagher is the reason, Why Me? Why Not The Most popular LP, selling 29,000 copies.

According to the industry Association, the Bpi , streaming is now responsible for three-quarters of the "Album -equivalent-of - Sales " metric, which is used to convert the industrial consumption on services such as Spotify and Amazon music in Album Sales (in General, for 1,000 streams, you can create a "sale").

three years ago, the technology was only responsible for 36% of the Album Sales .

the explosion in the popularity of the on-demand music, The Fortunes of the industry, with Album Sales up 13% since 2010 and revenues are, however, are not grown at a similar pace, how streaming pays less than the real turnover.

the year of The greatest hit singles included Lil-Nas-X-country-rap-crossover-old town street and Ava, Max, pop-smash cute, But Psycho .

the Sales of CDs are still in a nosedive, with 26. 5 million sold in The Last 12 months, a decrease of 26. 8%.

By contrast, vinyl Sales increased by 4. 1%, with The Format now accounting for one in every eight albums bought in the UK.

Big-sellers included the debut of Billie Eilish s Album , If We fall Asleep , All of us, Wherever We Go? and more years of classics such as Fleetwood Mac 's Rumours, and Queen's Greatest Hits .

cassettes also proved to be surprisingly popular, with More Than 80,000 tapes of the highest value sold in the year 2019 - since 2004.

The tally was strong and Robbie Williams ' Number One Album , A Christmas gift, which sold More Than 10,000 cassettes copies in a single week in December.

But his success had more to do with marketing, as a sudden increase in affection for the archaic format of The Cassettes were sold as part of a merch bundle on his website, Packed with signed copies of the CD.

The popularity of cassettes and vinyl "shows fans still love physical, tangible musical artifact in their hands," said Vanessa Higgins, chief executive of a music label, Regent Street Records.

a Total of 154 million albums have been streamed or Downloaded , or the largest quantity purchased since 2006, as the number 161. 4 million.

this year, That was Crazy, the best-selling single by Gnarls Barkley , and The Most well-known Album was Snow Patrol , eyes Open .

Geoff Taylor, chief of the Bpi , said that the latest figures have shown that British music had a "bright future".

"the Strong demand for streaming music and vinyl, fueled by the investments and innovations of the British label in the discovery and promotion of new talents, not music consumption seen for 15 years," he says.

"But the full benefits of this growth can only be unlocked when our new government takes measures, the UK is more competitive, and require an incentive for further investment, the figures for the digital platforms, the beautiful music, and the filtering of illegal content, and give all our students the opportunity to play an instrument and discover the joy of Making Music . "

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Source of news: bbc.com