IFPI, the physique that represents the report business worldwide, has been publishing an intriguing sequence of stats this week concerning the world recorded music enterprise in 2022.
On Wednesday, for instance, it revealed that Taylor Swift’s recorded music generated extra money globally than another artist in 2022.
Yesterday (February 23), it revealed that As It Was by Harry Kinds was the most important single globally in 2022, having generated 2.28 billion world subscription stream equal models final yr.
On Friday (February 24), the corporate introduced that Dangerous Bunny’s Un Verano Sin Ti was the most important album, globally, in 2022, profitable the IFPI’s World Album Award for 2022, and topping its World Albums chart, in consequence.
IFPI says that its World Albums Chart takes under consideration all consumption codecs, spanning bodily gross sales, digital downloads, and streaming platforms throughout a calendar yr.
Crucially, IFPI notes that the chart “is weighted based mostly on the relative worth of every methodology of consumption.”
As defined by MBW alongside Thursday’s information concerning the IFPI’s High 20 artists chart, which Taylor Swift topped, what meaning in observe is that IFPI’s High 20 albums checklist (which you’ll be able to see in full under) reveals, so as, the albums that generated essentially the most cash final yr globally throughout streaming, obtain, and bodily report gross sales (mixed) in 2022.
Right here is the complete albums chart:
Dangerous Bunny, Un Verano Sin Ti
Taylor Swift, Midnights
Harry Kinds, Harry’s Home
BTS, Proof
Encanto Solid Encanto OST
Stray Youngsters, MAXIDENT
SEVENTEEN, Face The Solar
BLACKPINK, BORN PINK
Olivia Rodrigo, SOUR
Ed Sheeran =
ENHYPEN, MANIFESTO: DAY 1
Morgan Wallen, Harmful: The Double Album
Doja Cat, Planet Her
Stray Youngsters, ODDINARY
The Weeknd, Daybreak FM
TOMORROW X TOGETHER, minisode 2: Thursday’s Little one
Beyoncé, RENAISSANCE
SEVENTEEN, SECTOR 17
The Child LAROI, F*CK LOVE (Combine Tape)
Drake, Licensed Lover Boy
IFPI notes that Dangerous Bunny is the primary Latin American artist to win an IFPI World Chart Award.
Un Verano Sin Ti, the fifth album from the Puerto Rican rapper and singer, was launched in Could 2022. The 23-track album, which is an all-Spanish language report, went on to spend 13 weeks atop the Billboard 200 album chart, and later that yr grew to become the primary Spanish-language album to be nominated for Album of the Yr on the Grammy Awards.
Elsewhere within the World Albums Chart, there have been successes for a variety of artists – from Taylor Swift, IFPI’s World Recording Artist Of The Yr 2022, whose album Midnights charted at No.2, to the UK’s Harry Kinds’ Harry’s Home which charted at No.3 (Kinds additionally received the IFPI World Single of the Yr Award 2022 for his smash success As It Was).
Each Olivia Rodrigo’s SOUR (No.9) and Ed Sheeran’s = (No.10) spent a second yr within the High 10, whereas the unique soundtrack for Encanto reached No.5.
Eight of the 20 albums featured on the chart had been from South Korean acts, lef by BTS’ Proof within the No.4 spot.
Each Stray Youngsters (MAXIDENT No.6 and ODDINARY No.14) and SEVENTEEN (Face The Solar No.7; SECTOR 17 No.18) had two albums within the High 20, whereas TOMORROW X TOGETHER and ENHYPEN each appeared within the World Albums Chart for the primary time, at No.11 and No.16 with MANIFESTO: DAY 1 and minisode 2: Thursday’s Little one respectively.
South Korean woman group BLACKPINK additionally made their debut within the High 10 with their album BORN PINK which charted at No.8.
“We’re extremely excited to award Dangerous Bunny, the primary Latin American artist to win an IFPI World Award, with the Album of the Yr Award.”
Frances Moore, Chief Government, IFPI, stated: “We’re extremely excited to award Dangerous Bunny, the primary Latin American artist to win an IFPI World Award, with the Album of the Yr Award.
“His distinctive sound, encapsulated in his award-winning album Un Verano Sin Ti, has captured the world’s consideration on a outstanding scale during the last 12 months.
Added Moore: “This yr’s World Albums Chart bears testomony to the unimaginable partnerships that exist between artists and report labels.
“These partnerships nurture and help artists whereas they write and report their music earlier than occurring to advertise albums on a world stage, attaining extraordinary quantities of success world wide.”Music Enterprise Worldwide
