Your essential guide to the market shares for this month and 2025 so far. Compiled from Official Charts Company data.
YEAR-TO-DATE TOTAL MARKET SHARE BY CORPORATE GROUP
COMPILATION SALES NO. 1 UNIVERSAL
TW COMPANY
1 UNIVERSAL MUSIC 2 SONY MUSIC
3 WARNER MUSIC 4 NOT NOW MUSIC 5 CHERRY RED OTHERS
SHARE
43.0% 32.8% 4.1% 2.6% 1.7%
15.8%
ALL ALBUM SALES NO. 1 UNIVERSAL TW COMPANY
1 UNIVERSAL MUSIC 2 SONY MUSIC
3 WARNER MUSIC 4 BMG
5 XL BEGGARS OTHERS
SHARE
33.3% 18.5% 11.8% 3.2% 2.4%
30.8%
SINGLES STREAMS NO. 1 UNIVERSAL TW COMPANY
SHARE
1 UNIVERSAL MUSIC 2 SONY MUSIC
3 WARNER MUSIC 4 XL BEGGARS 5 BMG
OTHERS
36.1% 19.1% 15.3% 1.3% 1.1%
27.1%
SINGLES SALES NO. 1 UNIVERSAL TW COMPANY
1 UNIVERSAL MUSIC 2 SONY MUSIC
3 WARNER MUSIC 4 BMG
5 XL BEGGARS OTHERS
BY RECORD COMPANY
COMPILATION SALES NO. 1 RCA
TW COMPANY 1 RCA
2 ISLAND EMI 3 UMR
4 NOT NOW MUSIC 5 COLUMBIA 6 POLYDOR
7 CHERRY RED 8 ATLANTIC
9 RHINO (WARNERS) 10 DECCA 11 ACE
12 SONY MUSIC CG 13 BIG 3
14 DEMON MUSIC SHARE
29.1% 19.9% 18.0% 2.6% 2.4% 2.0% 1.7% 1.7% 1.4% 1.3% 1.1% 1.0% 0.9% 0.9%
15 UMG INTERNATIONAL 0.7% OTHERS
15.2%
ALL ALBUM SALES NO. 1 ISLAND EMI
TW COMPANY
1 ISLAND EMI 2 RCA
3 POLYDOR 4 COLUMBIA
5 WARNER-PARL 6 UMR
7 RHINO (WARNERS) 8 CONCORD 9 BMG
10 SONY MUSIC CG 11 DECCA
12 ATLANTIC
13 XL RECORDINGS 14 CHERRY RED
15 NUCLEAR BLAST OTHERS
SHARE
13.2% 8.5% 8.5% 6.2% 5.6% 4.3% 3.6% 3.3% 2.7% 2.6% 2.5% 2.4% 1.2% 1.0% 0.7%
33.7%
SINGLES STREAMS NO. 1 ISLAND EMI TW COMPANY
1 ISLAND EMI 2 POLYDOR 3 RCA
4 WARNER-PARL 5 COLUMBIA 6 ATLANTIC 7 UMR
8 RHINO (WARNERS) 9 VIRGIN MUSIC 10 DECCA
11 XL RECORDINGS 12 BMG
13 SONY MUSIC CG 14 DOMINO 15 AWAL
OTHERS SHARE
16.4% 12.9% 10.9% 7.0% 6.4% 6.3% 2.4% 1.6% 1.3% 1.3% 0.8% 0.7% 0.7% 0.5% 0.4%
30.4%
SINGLES SALES NO. 1 ISLAND EMI TW COMPANY
1 ISLAND EMI 2 RCA
3 POLYDOR 4 WARNER-PARL
6 COLUMBIA 7 UMR
8 RHINO (WARNERS) 9 DECCA
10 SONY MUSIC CG 11 BMG
12 VIRGIN MUSIC 13 XL RECORDINGS 0
MARCH APRIL MAY
14 BIG BROTHER 15 DEFECTED OTHERS
AES (ALL ALBUMS) NO. 1 ISLAND EMI
SHARE
13.9% 10.7% 10.7% 7.1%
4.7% 2.6% 2.0% 1.4% 1.0% 1.0% 0.8% 0.7% 0.6% 0.5%
TW COMPANY
1 ISLAND EMI 2 POLYDOR 3 RCA
5 ATLANTIC ■ Physical ■ Downloads 6.0%
4 WARNER-PARL 5 COLUMBIA 6 ATLANTIC 7 UMR
8 RHINO (WARNERS) 9 DECCA
10 VIRGIN MUSIC 11 SONY MUSIC CG 12 BMG
20 40 36.6%
13 XL RECORDINGS 60
14 DOMINO 15 AWAL
OTHERS SHARE
16.1% 12.7% 10.5% 6.9%
6.0% 2.6% 1.9% 1.5% 1.2% 0.9% 0.9% 0.8%
800.6% 0.5%
30.5%
AES (ARTIST ALBUMS) NO. 1 ISLAND EMI TW COMPANY
1 ISLAND EMI 2 POLYDOR 3 RCA
4 WARNER-PARL
■ SEA25 COLUMBIA 6.4%
6 ATLANTIC 7 UMR
8 RHINO (WARNERS) 9 DECCA
10 VIRGIN MUSIC 11 BMG
12 XL RECORDINGS 13 SONY MUSIC CG 14 DOMINO 15 AWAL
100 OTHERS 120 SHARE
16.1% 12.8% 10.4% 7.0% 6.4% 6.0% 2.5% 1.9% 1.5% 1.2% 0.9% 0.9% 0.8% 0.6% 0.5%
30.6%
AES (ALL ALBUMS) NO. 1 UNIVERSAL
SHARE
30.8% 17.4% 15.6% 1.8% 1.3%
33.2% TW COMPANY
1 UNIVERSAL MUSIC 2 SONY MUSIC
3 WARNER MUSIC 4 XL BEGGARS 5 BMG
OTHERS SHARE
36.0% 19.0% 15.3% 1.4% 1.3%
27.0%
AES (ARTIST ALBUMS) NO. 1 UNIVERSAL
TW COMPANY
1 UNIVERSAL MUSIC 2 SONY MUSIC
3 WARNER MUSIC 4 XL BEGGARS 5 BMG
OTHERS SHARE
35.9% 18.9% 15.4% 1.4% 1.3%
27.1%
ALBUMS ■ Physical ■ Downloads
MARCH APRIL MAY
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MARCH APRIL MAY
■ Downloads ■ Audio Stream ■ Video Streams 5,372,083 LAST YEAR % CHANGE 70,881,112,173 4,544,608,512 5,853,548 66,962,815,380 4,101,043,575 -8.2% 5.9% 10.8% 9.9% 12.4% 12.0% 20 40 1.6% 1.5% 1.7% 60 ■ SEA2 88.5% 86.1% 86.4% 80 SINGLES STREAMS AUDIO STREAMS VIDEO 100 120
MARKET STATISTICS - YEAR-TO-DATE ARTIST ALBUMS
TOTAL 638,195,025 605,212,903 5.4% PHYSICAL 5,818,581 5,921,545 -1.7% DOWNLOADS 766,810 875,544 -12.4% SEA2 TOTAL 44,857,687 51,443,078 41,875,221 48,672,310 7.1% 5.7%
COMPS TOTAL
1,661,911 1,678,774 -1.0% SALES
ALL ALBUMS SEA2
7,255,208 7,541,783 -3.8% 45,849,781 42,809,301 7.1%
MARCH APRIL MAY
FORMAT SPLITS 0.8% 0.8% 0.8%
SINGLES ■ Downloads ■ Audio Stream ■ Video Streams 97.7% 97.6% 97.6% 1.5% 1.6% 1.6%
TOTAL 53,104,989 50,351,084 5.5%
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