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CDs shine as UK music sales in 2023 jump to near record figure
Taylor Swift dominates album market, while best-performing track is Miley Cyrus’s Flowers
Sales of CDs rose last year for the first time in two decades, helping to lift the UK’s total spending on music to the highest level since the days when Destiny’s Child, Limp Bizkit and David Gray were topping the album charts. Phil Halliday, the managing director of the UK’s biggest music and entertainment retailer, HMV, said the chain had been seeing strong sales of deluxe collectible albums by bands for a while: “demand for that is kind of fervent”. Digital video sales rose 11.6% so that film overtook gaming to regain its position as the UK’s biggest entertainment source for the first time in about a decade as newer services such as Paramount+ and ITVX added to the choice available from the likes of Netflix, Amazon Prime and Apple TV.
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