Adele drives record surge in digital album sales

Sales break through 10m mark, spurred by Adele, Rihanna, Bruno Mars and Jessie JThe number of digital albums sold in 2011 has reached the 10m mark in record time, new data from the Official Charts Company reveals. Thanks in part to the success of Adele in the first half of 2011, the sales of digital albums reached 10m this week, only 169 days into 2011.Last year, which also broke records, there had been 7.1m sales at the same point. Battersea-born Adele has dominated the charts on both sides of ...

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