Digital dominates UK album and single sales

Digital now accounts for almost a third of all UK albums sales, according to a report compiled from Official Charts Company data. Plus the Top 10 biggest selling albums and singles of 2012 so far revealed!
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Digital now accounts for almost a third of all UK album sales, according to a report compiled from Official Charts Company data published by British music industry trade body, The BPI.

Digital album sales are up from 23.6% this time last year to 33.1%. Adele’s 21 was the biggest selling album of the first quarter of 2012. Lana Del Rey’s Born To Die is in second place, while Our Version Of Events by Emile Sande is at Number 3.

In the singles market, digital accounts for 99.7% of all singles sold in the UK. 46.7m singles were sold in the first quarter of 2012, up 4.4% on 2011’s first quarter tally of 44.7m.

The UK's biggest-selling single of 2012 so far is Somebody That I Used To Know by Gotye FT Kimbra, followed by Titanium by David Guetta FT Sia and Domino by Jessie J. All three have sold in excess of half a million copies so far this year.

The Top 10 biggest selling albums and singles of 21012 so far are as follows:

The Top 10 Biggest Selling Albums Of 2012 So Far
01 21 - Adele
02 Born To Die - Lana Del Rey
03 Our Version Of Events - Emile Sandé
04 + - Ed Sheeran
05 Mylo Xyloto - Coldplay
06 Doo-Wops & Hooligans - Bruno Mars
07 Nothing But The Beat - David Guetta
08 Who You Are - Jessie J
09 In My Dreams - Military Wives
10 In Case You Didn’t Know - Olly Murs

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The Top 10 Biggest Selling Singles Of 2012 So Far
01 Somebody That I Used To Know - Gotye FT Kimbra
02 Titanium - David Guetta FT Sia
03 Domino - Jessie J
04 Wild Ones - Flo Rida FT Sia
05 Next To Me - Emile Sande
06 Mama Do The Hump - Rizzle Kicks
07 Hot Right Now - DJ Fresh FT Rita Ora
08 Starships - Nicki Minaj
09 Stronger (What Doesn’t Kill You) - Kelly Clarkson
10 Good Feeling - Flo Rida

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