An article by the Guardian presenting numbers on UK single track, album, and liveshow sales based on 2008 figures. "Evidence of the demise of purchased music is everywhere to be seen, except for one place: the statistics."

There is a belief, that music sales are being harmed by the internet. MP3’s and peer-to-peer (p2p) networks have made swapping music easy, ever since Napster burst onto the scene in 1999. Is is true though? Well, according to figures from the UK music industry themselves, the answer is No.