According to the JQC, 5493 students sat A Level Music this year compared to 5916 in 2022. Numbers were down in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, but the biggest decline was recorded in England, by round the same percentage amount for the UK.
In 2022 there was a slight uptick in the number of Music entries, reflecting a 4.2% increase across all A Levels and a 2.4% increase in the 18-year-old cohort. This now proves to have been a temporary blip.
As a percentage of all A Level entries, Music is also down, from around 0.7% during 2019–22 to 0.63% according to analysis by professor Martin Fautley at Birmingham City University. Of all subjects, Music and Drama have seen the largest falls, while Maths and Chemistry saw the greatest gains.
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