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Adele/Coldplay Boost UK Music Sales

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7 September 2017

By Alex Khalil

British music thrived off the back of artists like Adele, Coldplay and David Bowie overseas last year. Earning £365m around the world for record labels in 2016, British artists pushed revenue up 11%. This is a 72% rise from 2010.

The albums that were most successful were, obviously, Adele’s 25, Coldplay’s A Head Full of Dreams, David Bowie’s Blackstar and (out of the blue) The Rolling Stones with their record Blue & Lonesome. British Phonographic Industry chief executive Geoff Taylor said the success of the music industry in the UK would help Britain as it prepares to remove itself from the EU.

Well, if Adele’s recent album sales are anything to go by, I think we’ll be fine. Her album 25 sold 20 million copies by June 2016 which is insane. It sold 17.4 million by the end of 2015, which is incredible considering it came out in November of that year.

In other music news, Justin Timberlake will be featured on Foo Fighters’ new record. Dave Grohl revealed in an interview with Rolling Stone, saying that Justin had asked so he would ‘be able to tell [his] friends’.

We knew there would be a mystery guest on the album, some people even speculated it could be Adele or Taylor Swift.

But somehow Dave Grohl doesn’t look like the kind of guy who would do a record with…well:

 

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