The BPI has announced that the UK accounted for 12.6% of global music sales in 2011, up from 11.8% in 2010, with British music reaching a retail value of £1.9bn overseas. That rise of 0.8 percentage points has a lot to do with Adele, whose ’21’ album sold 18m copies in 2011, taking a 1.6% share of all albums sold globally.
BPI hails UK’s 12.6% share of global music sales in 2011
