30 Mar – Jay Chou has recently made history as the first Mandopop star to enter the IFPI 2022 Global Album Sales Chart, and at first place at that. The singer, who released his first studio album, ...

Adele's "30" leads the way on IFPI's global albums charts, and does so in record breaking fashion. By Lars Brandle Adele didn’t go easy on her music-making rivals in 2021, as her latest album 30 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It was a beautiful ride in 2024 for Benson Boone, as the breakthrough artist scored the biggest hit on the planet. Boone’s ...

EMI has ended several months of speculation by confirming it will remain a member of global labels body IFPI, following high-level meetings in recent months between the four majors and the body. By ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. BTS was named the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry’s Global Recording Artist of the Year Award for the second ...

BTS top a third IFPI chart for 2020 -- the Global Album Sales tally. By Lars Brandle BTS aren’t done with rewriting the history books. The K-pop superstars bag another IFPI award, this time topping ...

Taylor Swift was the best-selling recording artist of 2019, according to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, the organization that represents the recorded music industry ...

It’s official: online piracy has only one real solution, and that solution will be taxpayer-funded. International music trade group IFPI today issued its annual report on digital music (PDF), and ...

This story appears in Rolling Stone‘s 2021 Future of Music issue, a special project delving into the next era of the multibillion-dollar hitmaking business. Read the other stories here. The biggest ...

Industry income from Spotify and rival services up 51% but Japanese drop pulls overall sales down Global recorded music revenues fell by 3.9% to $15bn in 2013, despite income from subscription ...