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Salvation in digital form for albums market.

Music Week

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Sales of digital albums rose 64.0% in the first three months of 2009, giving hope to an industry that has seen physical sales continue to fall.

There were 3,806,921 digital albums sold in the 13 weeks to March 28, nearly 1.5m more units than were sold in the same period of 2008, while physical album sales fell 12.3% to 24,147,057. Overall, album sales dropped 6.4% to 27,953,978.

This is only the second quarter in UK recorded music history that sales of digital albums have gone above the 3m mark - and the other time was the fourth quarter of 2008, traditionally a very strong time for music sales.

This impressive ...

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