Despite a big uptake in digital albums - they represented almost one fifth of the album sector in 2010 - the market for CD albums dropped 12.4% to 98.5m and dragged the whole sector from 128.9m in 2009 to 119.9m in 2010.

BPI chief executive Geoff Taylor believes the market has now turned a corner, with 2010 going down as the year that digital albums finally went mainstream selling some 21.0m.

But, Taylor also pounces on the data as further ...