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The decline in record sales slowed down significantly last year, despite the recession and all that jazz. According to stats from the Entertainment Retailers Association, whose members represent over 90% of the market.
Needless to say, music sales were helped enormously by the booming a la carte digital market, which is slowly starting to compensate for lost physical product sales.
Commenting on her trade body's 2009 stats, ERA Director General Kim Bayley told CMU: "Surging download sales and the huge appeal of SuBo and Gaga show music still has huge appeal for the British public. It is too soon to call an end to music's decline, but in 2009 entertainment retailers discovered music has still got a lot to offer".
