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Sales surge signals late flourish.
Christmas spending: singles sales go through the roof
A challenging year for the British record industry ended with a flourish, as album sales for week 52 (ending Saturday, December 27) were more than 2m up on the same week in 2007, while singles sales topped the 4m mark for the first time ever.
The fact that Christmas Day fell on a Thursday was probably a contributory factor to week 51 album sales falling 12.36% against the same week in 2007. But with shoppers out in force in the four days before Christmas, week 52 sales fell by just 7.3% week-on-week to 6,761,768 - a 47.79% hike on same-week 2007 sales of 4,575,112.
Overall album sales in the last four weeks of 2008 - at 25,516,394 - were up 3.7% on 2007, when 24,602,249 albums were sold but off 9.55% on 2006 sales of 28,209,707.
The Circus by Take That was once again the biggest selling album and became the first album ever to sell more than 300,000 copies for four weeks in a row.
That impressive tally was enough to make it the ...
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