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UK music fans snap up 65,000 cassettes in 2020 – Yahoo News Australia
Cassette sales have doubled year on year but still represent a “tiny fraction” of music sales.
Nearly 65,000 music cassettes were sold in the UK in the first six months of 2020, according to the Official Charts Company.
The firm says this is double the cassette sales figure recorded during the same period in 2019 – and more than the entire year’s sales from 2018.
Lady Gaga has sold 12,000 cassettes of her latest studio album Chromatica since its release in May 2020.
The average cassette retails for about £10 ($13), compared with £15 for vinyl.
A triple-cassette edition of Chromatica i…
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