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Annual figures published in the BPI's Statistical Handbook reveal that classical companies experienced their lowest trade deliveries in 2002 for almost a decade, narrowly beating the recession-affected return of 12.9 million in 2003 with 13.1 million deliveries.

The selling difficulties facing major and independent classical companies were underlined by the BPI's market share statistics, which show that classical music accounted for 5.8% by volume and 5.5% by value of all album sales. ...

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