Posted July 5, 201312 yr Album sales drop 5.2% in Q2 Source: MW by Paul Willams UK album sales dropped 5.2% year-on-year in Q2 as Daft Punk's Random Access Memories finished as the top artist seller and Now! 84 the leading title overall. Some 19.5 million albums were sold over the three months, according to BPI/Official Charts Company figures, with the artist albums market dropping 7.7% annually and compilations rallying by 5.8%. Besides Daft Punk's Columbia album and Universal/EMI/Sony's Now! compilation, top sellers of the quarter included Reprise/Warner Bros act Michael Buble's To Be Loved, Rod Stewart's Capitol/Decca set Time and Rudimental's Asylum/Atlantic debut Home. Digital album sales were up 10.2% to 7.9 million units with Daft Punk again the top seller, but this growth was not enough to cancel out a 14.4% fall in the CD albums sector. Vinyl album sales more than doubled compared to the equivalent period in 2012. Daft Punk further led the singles market with the million-selling Get Lucky featuring Pharrell Williams, but the market here grew only 0.1% on the year to 47.0 million units. This was despite a number of other substantial sellers including the Robin Thicke Interscope/Polydor track Blurred Lines featuring TI and Pharrell Williams, the period's second top seller.
July 5, 201312 yr Album sales drop 5.2% in Q2 Source: MW by Paul Willams UK album sales dropped 5.2% year-on-year in Q2 as Daft Punk's Random Access Memories finished as the top artist seller and Now! 84 the leading title overall. Some 19.5 million albums were sold over the three months, according to BPI/Official Charts Company figures, with the artist albums market dropping 7.7% annually and compilations rallying by 5.8%. No wonder MW post a combined albums total, rather than splitting it!
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