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UK digital album sales pass 50 million
By CMU Editorial | Published on Monday 4 October 2010
Over 50 million digital albums have now been sold in the UK, with digital now accounting for 20% of all album sales, according to stats published by the BPI and Official Charts Company last week. The record label trade body says these stats prove that the album format still has a role to play in the digital era, despite the huge iTunes-fuelled rise of single track sales in recent years.
Says BPI boss Geoff Taylor said: “Despite predictions to the contrary, digital albums have proved themselves a hugely successful format. Although digital downloads have boosted the singles market, many music fans want to hear a complete body of work from their favourite artists. Britain now boasts nearly 70 legal digital music services – more than any other country. Music fans are responding to the choice, convenience and value on offer from digital downloading”.
He continued: “For digital to reach the 50 million milestone faster than the CD suggests to me that the confidence consumers have shown in powering digital singles to an all-time high is now also being displayed in the albums market”.
For that guy at the back who just asked, here of the five biggest selling digital albums of all time, in the UK.
1. Kings Of Leon – Only By The Night
2. Lady Gaga – The Fame
3. Florence & The Machine – Lungs
4. Lily Allen – It’s Not Me It’s You
5. Mumford & Sons – Sigh No More
