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Sales fall spells gloom for music industry

By Ben Fenton in London

Published: January 25 2008 02:00 | Last updated: January 25 2008 02:00

The music industry faced more bleak news yesterday as official figures showed that revenues from all recorded music shrank 10 per cent last year.

The data released by International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, the industry trade body, show that the growth in digital downloads slowed in 2007 and failed to compensate for crashing CD sales.

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