Downloads fail to fill gap as album sales plummet for sixth year running

Combined digital and physical album sales drop by 7% but singles market continues to growThe music industry had another miserable year in 2010,with new figures published today showing that album sales had dropped for the sixth year running.Combined digital and physical sales, chiefly CDs, dropped by 7% overall to 119.9m units. Digital album sales were up by 30.6% on last year – from a little over 16m to 21m – but the CD market continued to slump, falling 12.4% to 98.5m.The figures were mad...

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