UK cassette sales have more than doubled in 2020
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nme.comThe British Phonographic Industry has projected that 157,000 tapes will have been sold in the UK by the end of 2020, despite two national coronavirus lockdowns.That’s the highest number since 2003, when compilation ‘Now 54’ – featuring the likes of Oasis, Girls Aloud and Busted – was the biggest seller on tape.The best selling cassettes of 2020 were occupied by Lady Gaga‘s ‘Chromatica’, 5 Seconds of Summer‘s ‘CALM’, Yungblud‘s second album ‘Weird’ and the The 1975‘s ‘Notes On A Conditional Form’.There was also a 103% increase on cassette sales in the first half of 2020 compared to the same period in 2019.All the albums in the cassette Top 10 were also 2020 releases.The predicted best-selling vinyl LPs of 2020 are as follows:1.
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