Best Selling Music Genres

Today we have researched the best selling music genres. Fact and figures were provided by british phonographic industry.

• First of all, the fact that Pop accounted for the top five sellers of 2013 (three Now compilations and one album apiece by One Direction and Emeli Sandé) was not enough to stop Rock overtaking it at the top of the share table. 

• Pop and Rock continue to dominate the market as a whole, although 2013 saw two MOR/Easy titles break the year-end top 10, as opposed to the clean Pop/Rock sweep achieved the year before. Michael Bublé’s To Be Loved and Robbie Williams’s Swings Both Ways were placed at six and seven respectively, and played no small part in bumping up MOR’s share to a four-year high of 8.1%. 
• The improvement from MOR was not enough to hold off the charge from Dance, however, which scored its best result in eight years. Whereas five Dance titles made the top 100 in 2012, 12 did so in 2013, including big new artist releases from Rudimental and Disclosure. 
• R&B endured another decrease in 2013 to record its smallest share since 1995, with only five titles in the top 100 classified within the genre. Classical too saw its fortunes wane slightly, while Hip Hop recorded a slight increase, due mainly to the success of Eminem’s The Marshall Mathers LP 2. 

Sales and Streams 

by Type of Music 

                            Rock is the streamers’ choice in 2013 

• Pop remains the biggest genre by far in the singles market although its share dipped slightly – as in the albums market – in 2013. It has now accounted for over a third of sales for five consecutive years although no Pop titles featured in the top five of 2013, Katy Perry’s Roar being the highest-placed at six.
• Rock’s share increase continued in 2013, marking three straight years of improvement. Passenger’s Let Her Go was the genre’s top seller at number four, with OneRepublic’s Counting Stars also featuring in the top 10. Dance’s share of 16.1% was its biggest since 2006, with two of the year’s top three sellers (by Daft Punk and Avicii) attributed to the genre. Over a quarter (26) of the top 100 singles of the year were Dance tracks, up significantly on the 18 present in 2012.
• The biggest selling track of the year – Robin Thicke’s Blurred Lines – helped lift R&B’s share after a severe dip in 2012, while Justin Timberlake’s Mirrors also featured in the 2013 top 10. Despite big successes from artists such as Macklemore

& Lewis and Eminem, Hip Hop’s share slid to 8.6%, almost five percentage points behind R&B. MOR/ Easy’s share held steady but Classical and Reggae both saw demand slip slightly.

• Interestingly, when the top 2,000 streams of the year are analysed by genre type, Rock comes out on top. The two most-streamed artists of the year – Arctic Monkeys and Bastille – are both from the Rock firmament, with the two acts alone accounting for a hugely impressive 42 of 2,000 most-played tracks on audio streaming services. Artists such as Imagine Dragons and The Lumineers also scored places in the top 10 tracks chart for the year.