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British digital album sales top 100 million
By CMU Editorial | Published on Friday 3 August 2012
Over 100 million digital albums have now been sold in the UK, six years after such things started to be logged by the record industry’s stat monkeys, and just two years since the 50 million benchmark was passed. As previously reported, while single tracks dominated in the early days of download sales, the numbers of digital albums being sold has increased hugely in recent years.
Needless to say, certain high profile albums have particularly helped with the 100 million sales stat – including long players from Lady Gaga, Ed Sheeran and Adele – with each of the ten best selling digital albums so far selling over 250,000 units online, according to data published by record label trade body the BPI and the Official Charts Company today. Home-grown artists also perform particularly well in the digital albums sales stakes.
With compulsory Olympics reference very much in hand, BPI boss Geoff Taylor told CMU: “Sales of digital albums are surging ahead as British consumers embrace the convenience, value and choice offered by online services. As our athletes compete against the best in the world, British artists have taken the gold and silver positions in the best-selling digital artist albums of all time, and six places in the top ten. With big releases to come from Rita Ora, The Script, Elbow, and Stooshe, digital album sales should continue to grow strongly”.
