Music sales worth half of UK's video games market in 2013

The UK’s combined entertainment market (recorded music, video and video games) generated £5.4 billion in 2013, up 4% year-on-year - but music contributed less than a fifth of the sum.

New data from the Entertainment Retailers Association (ERA) shows that recorded music’s total revenues across physical, digital and streaming formats dropped slightly by 0.5% in 2013, amounting to £1.04 billion.

That figure was less than half the total money generated by the video games market, which grew 6.6% in the ...



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