Streaming Dominates French Music Industry H1 2023

French business physique SNEP has revealed numbers for H1 2023, revealing 9.4% development yr over yr.

The French music business generated €397 million ($424.7M) from digital and bodily music gross sales & streaming. Streaming accounted for a whopping 77% of that whole, rising from 71% in 2021 and 75% in 2022. SNEP says that French listeners streamed round 60 billion tracks within the first half of 2023, a determine that represents a development of 17% in comparison with the identical interval final yr.

49 billion (81%) of these streams had been from paying subscribers, with paid subscriptions accounting for 59% of revenues. Whereas the expansion stays on an uptick, SNEP says the tempo is “too sluggish in comparison with the huge adoption of the paid market in different main historic recorded music markets.”

The IFPI famous that France fell out of the world’s high 5 recorded-music markets this yr—changed by China.

SNEP additionally revealed some attention-grabbing stats concerning the French music business as an entire. The 200 most listened-to tracks in paid audio streaming accounted for 10.5% of the overall variety of paid streams. These high 200 tracks streamed in H1 2023 accounted for round 3.8 billion streams from paid subscribers. The whole high ten best-selling artists for H1 2023 in France had been all native acts. 17 of the Prime 20 best-selling album sin the nation had been additionally made by native acts, whereas 75% of the Prime 200 had been French productions.

Prime Streaming Artists in France H1 2023

1. Jul
2. Ninho
3. Djadja & Dinaz
4. Werenoi
5. Zola
6. PNL
7. Damso
8. Lomepal
9. PLK
10. SDM
11. HAMZA
12. Maes
13. Gazo
14. The Weeknd
15. Aya Nakamura
16. Naps
17. SCH
18. Tiakola
19. Nekfeu
20. Tayc

Prime Streaming Tracks in France H1 2023

1. Miley Cyrus — “Flowers”
2. Gaulois — “Jolie”
3. SDM — “Bolide allemand”
4. Rema — “Calm Down”
5. Zola — “Amber”
6. Aya Nakamura — “Child”
7. Hamza — “Nocif”
8. SDM — “Mr Ocho”
9. Tiakola — “Meuda”
10. Gazo — “Die”
11. Metro Boomin & The Weeknd — “Creepin’”
12. Louane — “Secret”
13. David Guetta — “I’m Good (Blue)”
14. Vacra — “Tiki Taka”
15. Ayra Starr — “Rush”
16. RK — “Lola”
17. Tom Odell — “One other Love”
18. Lomepal — “Decrescendo”
19. Maneskin — “The Loneliest”
20. Maes — “Fetty Wap”