Genre distribution of music album unit sales in the United Kingdom (UK) 2016
This statistic shows a genre breakdown of music album sales in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2016. Pop music was the most popular music album genre taking a 34.9 percent share of sales. Rock music lost slightly in popularity compared to 2015, with rock music album sales accounting for 32.3 percent of unit sales in 2016, while MOR/Easy Listening's music share increased compared to the previous year, and reached a level of 6.9 percent.