Citing new data from streaming giant Spotify, the trade body said that UK artists now represent nearly one in five (19 percent) of all tracks streamed globally on the platform.
Artists including Coldplay, One Direction, Royal Blood, Mumford & Sons, Clean Bandit and Sam Smith are fuelling the trend.
The findings come as a growing appetite for Spotify has seen streams double year-on-year to 10.2 billion in 2014, up from 5.4 billion during the same period of 2013.
Here in the UK, music fans have streamed 10.2 billion tracks on the platform so far this year – the equivalent to 160 streams per person.
Overall, users of services such as Spotify, Rdio and Deezer are now playing tracks over 300 million times every week, and the Official Streaming Chart Number One accounts for over one million of those.
Clean Bandit’s Rather Be has been named as Spotify's most streamed track of 2014 so far, having been played more than 32 million times.
Earlier this year Ed Sheeran made Spotify history by scoring the biggest ever ‘week one’ of album streams in Spotify history. His double platinum-selling sophomore album X was streamed 23,792,476 times.
Meanwhile, Calvin Harris' Blame became the first song to break the 10 million streams in a week barrier on the service in October 2014.
BPI chief executive Geoff Taylor said: ‘The outstanding performance of British music globally on Spotify suggests that our exceptional music heritage may position us to claim an even greater share of the world market for recorded music in a streaming era.
‘And as the busy last quarter of the year gets underway, a string of new releases from Calvin Harris, One Direction, Jessie J, and Rumer promise a strong British performance at the top of the UK streaming charts.’
Kevin Brown, Spotify’s head of label relations for Europe, added: ‘It should come as no surprise that Britain is famous the world over for its rich musical output.
‘The range and quality of music from home-grown UK artists is staggering; from rock bands like Arctic Monkeys to enormously successful dance artists like Calvin Harris, and exceptional singer songwriters like Ed Sheeran via all points in between.’
In related news, Spotify announced yesterday that it's UK business turned profitable in 2013.
Artists including Coldplay, One Direction, Royal Blood, Mumford & Sons, Clean Bandit and Sam Smith are fuelling the trend.
The findings come as a growing appetite for Spotify has seen streams double year-on-year to 10.2 billion in 2014, up from 5.4 billion during the same period of 2013.
Here in the UK, music fans have streamed 10.2 billion tracks on the platform so far this year – the equivalent to 160 streams per person.
Overall, users of services such as Spotify, Rdio and Deezer are now playing tracks over 300 million times every week, and the Official Streaming Chart Number One accounts for over one million of those.
Clean Bandit’s Rather Be has been named as Spotify's most streamed track of 2014 so far, having been played more than 32 million times.
Earlier this year Ed Sheeran made Spotify history by scoring the biggest ever ‘week one’ of album streams in Spotify history. His double platinum-selling sophomore album X was streamed 23,792,476 times.
Meanwhile, Calvin Harris' Blame became the first song to break the 10 million streams in a week barrier on the service in October 2014.
BPI chief executive Geoff Taylor said: ‘The outstanding performance of British music globally on Spotify suggests that our exceptional music heritage may position us to claim an even greater share of the world market for recorded music in a streaming era.
‘And as the busy last quarter of the year gets underway, a string of new releases from Calvin Harris, One Direction, Jessie J, and Rumer promise a strong British performance at the top of the UK streaming charts.’
Kevin Brown, Spotify’s head of label relations for Europe, added: ‘It should come as no surprise that Britain is famous the world over for its rich musical output.
‘The range and quality of music from home-grown UK artists is staggering; from rock bands like Arctic Monkeys to enormously successful dance artists like Calvin Harris, and exceptional singer songwriters like Ed Sheeran via all points in between.’
In related news, Spotify announced yesterday that it's UK business turned profitable in 2013.
