About BPI // British Phonographic Industry

The British Phonographic Industry has over 300 members from independent music companies and the UK's major record companies (Universal, Sony & Warner Bros). BPI member's account for 85% of all music sold in the UK.

Here are some facts and figures from their website:

This shows that "physical formats" are still producing the most income for the industry but it is decreasing with the numbers going from 79.7 in 2009 to 50 in 2013. We can also see the increase of" online sales meaning that over time online sales will over take the physical format sales as they have had a 20.5 in the last 3 years increase.

Here we can see the album sales by genre. This shows that Rock is the most popular genre (with a 33.8%) but Pop is close behind (with a 31.0%). There is a 22.7% difference between Pop and the next genre down which is Dance. So this shows that Pop and Rock and the defiantly going to stay the more popular genre for a long time, however we may see Pop over take the Rock genre because it is coming increasingly popular.