ERA Reports £2bn Milestone for UK Music Streaming in 2025

The BPI recently released its report on sales figures and streams in the UK in 2025, and now industry body ERA (The Digital Entertainment and Retail Association) has issued its interim annual figures based on value.

Snapshot:

• Sales of streaming subscriptions and music product in the UK reached an all-time high of £2.435 billion (USD $3.23bn) in 2025.

• Revenues from streaming subscriptions increased 3.2% to £2.045 billion (USD $2.69bn), compared with a 7.8% increase the year prior.

• Physical music sales grew 11.5% to £368.1 million (USD $484.2m), propelled by an 18.5% increase in vinyl revenues and a 95% increase in other physical formats (predominantly cassette) to £4.6 million.

• CD revenues were down 1% to £125 million.

Headliners:

• Taylor Swift’s The Life Of A Showgirl was the biggest-selling album (642,469 units) and biggest selling vinyl (147,382 units) of 2025.

• “Ordinary” by Alex Warren was the year’s biggest single, generating the equivalent of 2.18 million sales.

What they said:

• Kim Bayley, ERA CEO: “Streaming services in the UK fund around 60 different programs supporting music, with a third of them focusing on new and emerging UK talent. Record shops too are playing their part, promoting more than 4,000 instore and outstore performances a year, the majority of them featuring UK artists. Streaming services and retailers are committed to supporting new UK music and the emergence of a new wave of UK artists is vindicating their approach.”