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Rock music overtook pop in UK album sales last year, winning a bigger share of the market for the first time in five years.Rod Stewart's Time was the best-selling album to be classified as rock by the Official Charts Company, followed by Arctic Monkeys and Bastille.
In total rock accounted for 33.8% of album sales, compared with 31% for pop, said industry body the BPI. Link.
Sense and reason has at last prevailed among the young of my country!
I don't like the Arctic Monkeys but this is still good news for my aging ears. I abandoned the most popular radio station long ago because they played incessant boy and girl band rubbish or we were subjected to Simon Cowell's X-factor winners so this is good news.
However, pop records still held the lead in single sales.
There's always a dark lining to my silver clouds.