Hurrah, some good news to start the year - the singles market is booming. Of course, given that the singles market these days includes single track downloads, that's not really going to surprise anyone, but hey, always good to have some good news to start the year. According to the Official UK Charts Company, singles sales for 2006 (excluding last week) were 65.1 million units, more than double the 32.3 million units sold in 2004 and up 36% on the 48 million sold in 2005. Needless to say, downloads is where things are booming - downloaded singles for the year were 51.6 million, up from 26.6 million in 2005 and just 5.8 million in 2004. All super.
Jan 2, 2007
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Singles sales boom in 2006, driven by downloads
UK singles sales in 2006 reached 65.1 million units, more than double 2004's figure, with downloaded singles accounting for 51.6 million of them.