Category archives: Germany

Natascha Augustin named Senior Creative Director at Warner/Chappell Germany

Augustin’s promotion completes a recent restructure of Warner/Chappell’s German A&R team
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Streaming overtakes CDs in Germany for the first time in H1 2018 – but the market declines 2%

Streaming rises 35.2% to represent a 47.8% marketshare
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YouTube settlement helps push GEMA collections up 15% in 2016

Online income more than doubled to total €81.6m while money earned from hardware that hosts music increased 500% €97.9m

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Germany’s recorded music market generated €1.58bn in 2016, up 2.4%

Streaming rose 73.1% to hit a marketshare of 24.3%, while digital downloads are down 19.4% to account for 12.3% of the market

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World Famous Flea Market Cancelled Due to Terrorism Threat. Are Music Festivals Next?

This is now a serious problem for the concert industry, on both sides of the Atlantic. For the first time since World War II, the world-famous Lille flea market festival has been cancelled due to an unspecified terrorist threat.  Amidst concerns of a repeat of what has happened at several large festivals in Europe, northern […]

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