Swings and roundabouts. The decline of Hip Hop
June 19, 2007Reading this over at Coolfer got me thinking about Hip Hop sales in the UK. Same story?
Research by the BPI BPI Stats 2006 shows a 10 year high in 2004, with Hip Hop accounting for 6.5% of UK album sales that year. Last year that figure was reduced to 3.3%. The biggest sellers in the genre on our side of the pond were Black Eyed Peas and The Streets – No, nor me.
Rock incidently went from 29.8% in 2004 to 40.6% in 2006. Contemporary rock takes the majority of that slice with 25.5% and Metal, Prog and AoR taking the remainder.
Album sales are not what they were in the heyday of the mid-late 90s, but the fact remains Hip Hop is down. But not with the kids..
Is this cyclical, or a trend showing the demise of the genre? What about UK Hip Hop apart from The Streets?
More tbc…
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