"Heiterefahne" was the most successful album in 2016
According to updated pocket statistics from the Federal Office of Culture (BAK), Trauffer's "Heiterefahne" leads the top ten Swiss music albums sold in German-speaking Switzerland, followed by titles by Gölä, the Schwiizergoofen, Beatrice Egli and Polo Hofer.
Trauffer is represented with two albums (including "Alpentainer"), the Schwiizergoofe with three (4, "Früelig & Summer" and 5). Bligg and Schlunegger's Heimweh are also in the top ten.
According to BAK statistics, almost 20 percent of Swiss people sing, 17 percent make music and 9 percent dance. Around 95 percent listen to music privately, 70 percent go to concerts. Classical music concerts are most popular in German-speaking Switzerland, chanson concerts in French-speaking Switzerland and jazz, funk and country concerts in Italian-speaking Switzerland.
The majority of the Swiss population listen to chansons and singer-songwriters, including dialect rock and variety or pop music (around 7 in 10 people), closely followed by pop/rock and world music (each with around 65%) and jazz, funk or country (just over 60%). Classical music (including opera) is listened to by around half of the population - exactly the same proportion as techno, house, rap or hip-hop. Four out of ten people listen to Swiss folk and brass band music privately.
When it comes to private music listening, there are striking age differences in the use of the media: people between 30 and 74 years of age are more likely to listen to music on the radio, CDs are more common among middle-aged people, while listening to music via the Internet, a computer, MP3 player or cell phone is very common among younger people. Records and cassettes are mainly used by older people - 4 out of 10 respondents aged 75 and over do so.
