Album unit sales in the United Kingdom (UK) 2008-2016, by format
This statistic displays a timeline of album sales in the United Kingdom from 2008 to 2016, by format. In 2016, 47.3 million albums were sold on CD. CD was still the best-selling album format, while 18.1 million albums were sold in digital format that year. The number of albums sold on LP continued to rise in 2016, to over three million units sold.