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Adele helped UK acts achieve a pretty big share of the US album market

  • March 19, 2012
  • Brad O'Mance

Sales of Adele's '19' album helped British musicians take their highest share of album sales in America for over a decade.

According to the BPI, and reported by the BBC, British acts accounted for 11.7% of all albums sold in the US last year, compared to 9.8% in 2010.

Adele's '21' lead the pack with 5.8 million sold, while thirty albums by UK acts sold upwards of 100,000 copies.

BPI chief executive Geoff Taylor said: "These results prove that the risks UK labels take investing in British talent… help British artists break inter­na­tion­ally and generate important exports that boost the UK economy."

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