CD sales to break a record
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Your support makes all the difference.SALES of compact discs in 1993 are likely to set a UK record for any recorded-music format, writes David Lister.
Figures to be released this week by the British Phonographic Industry show that 58 million CDs have been sold already this year. And in the last quarter, July to September, 21.3 million CD albums worth pounds 107.8m were sold, a 42 per cent increase on the same period last year.
If that percentage increase is maintained in the final quarter, CDs will easily overtake the annual record for album sales, set in 1976 when 91.6 million vinyl albums were bought.
With the last quarter including the peak Christmas sales, the industry is confident that CDs will break that record.
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