Directori Catalan! - Catalan! Arts

POSITIVE
DEVELOPMENT OF THE
RECORD INDUSTRY
The Catalan record industry started
to recover in 2010 thanks to the new
Catalan pop; this recovery continued in
2011 in terms of sales with a turnover
of €16.3 million, an increase of 5.1%.
A new record in volume of releases
in Catalan was also established, with
605 titles in all styles, while the sector
generated 2% more in royalties from
recordings. This clear positive trend
differed considerably from that of the
Spanish record industry as a whole,
where the €148.6 million in income from
sales represented a decrease in 10.8%
compared to 2010. Turnover for Catalan
record companies rose from €15.6
million in 2010 to €16.3 million in 2011,
of which €14.6 million was from physical
sales and €1.7 million from digital sales.
Although the €8.3 million turnover of
Blanco y Negro, the Catalan record
company representing 51% of the pie,
represented a drop of just 1% in their
income, the good results of DiscMedi
(€3.7 million), Música Global (850,000)
and Satélite K (€459,000), among other
labels in the Association of Record
Producers and Publishers of Catalonia
(APECAT), made this increase possible.
Furthermore, the trend was reversed,
generating a 2% increase in income
from royalties from recorded music in
Catalonia, quantified at €6.2 million.
In 2011, there was positive confirmation
of another variable: the total of 605
releases in 2011 with at least one song
in Catalan established a new record.
This represented an increase of 2.4%
over 2010, which saw the first signs of
recovery with a 10% increase. In terms
of styles and genres, the largest increase
was in the field providing the most titles:
pop rock. The 253 discs attributable
to this genre represent a 9.5% increase
over the previous year. Other genres that
experienced an increase include music
by singer-songwriters, with 108 new
releases and an 8% increase, as well
as the increase in folk and new music,
with 96 records released—an increase
of 4.3%. Genres that maintained the
same position as the previous year were
jazz and blues and children and family
records. Jazz consolidated its position as
the second most productive genre in the
country with 114 releases. Furthermore,