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British musicians make over £100 million from abroad in 2008

Takings for UK talent have risen by £20 million in a year

April 6, 2009 | 2 Comments
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British musicians are earning £20 million more from their royalties than last year.

Homegrown talent earned £139.6 million overseas in 2008 – compared to £121.2 million in 2007.

The PRS for Music, formerly known as the Performing Rights Society, said big UK bands touring internationally increased the income.

According to BBC News four of last year's globally biggest selling albums were British artists.

Coldplay stood as the best-selling, Duffy was fourth while Leona Lewis and Amy Winehouse (whose album 'Back To Black' was actually released in 2006) came sixth and seventh.

America is the biggest earning foreign territory for UK acts, with Germany second and France third.

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jorges

Apr 6, 2009

Popular British music has always been, in my opinion, consistently the best. Now if only they could do something about the foodâ€¦

kwisj

Apr 7, 2009

I agree with Jorges. I'm British and I live on continental Europe, and here the music is consistently pants, but the food is spectacular: like UK music. But maybe quality of music is inversely proportional to quality of food. If British folk had good food then we may have British bands like that knob end band Opus with their shite Europe famous song 'life is life.' They still play it here. Grrrr Grrrr.