Even Lionel Messi must bow to the might of Adele. The singer’s 25 album beat the Cheap Fifa 16 Coins computer game to become the best-selling home entertainment title of 2015 and help drive a 4 per cent increase in UK music sales.
Despite its release just six weeks before the end of the year, 25 racked up 2.6m CD and download sales. The album recorded 88,000 more sales than FIFA 16, the year’s blockbuster computer game, figures from the Entertainment Retailers Association (ERA) showed.Digital revenues from on-demand platforms, mobile gaming and streaming services pushed the UK’s combined games, video and music markets to a record high of ￡6.1bn in 2015, shrugging off a decade of decline.
In video, digital revenues from services such as Netflix and Amazon Prime and Sky Store exceeded ￡1bn for the first time, with the ERA predicting that “video will Fifa 16 Coins become a majority-digital business in 2016.” Computer games enjoyed a 10% sales increase with digital sales more than compensating for a decline in physical purchases. UK music consumption rose by 4% to ￡1.1bn.But Adele, who also dominated the US market with 7.5m sales of 25, is bucking the digital shift. http://www.fifa16shop.com/
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