Rod Stuart defeated Pops

According to the results of 2013, sales of rock music albums in the UK for the first time in five years ahead of pop music. The successful of the albums assigned by the organization Official Charts Company to the Rock category was the “Time” of the Stewart family.

The following are the releases of the ARCTIC Monkeys and Bastille groups, BBC reports.

In general, the share of rock albums amounted to 33.8% of sales, the share of pop albums-31%. However, among the singles, pop music continues to lead: it accounts for 36.2% of sales of all single (at rock sping-21.4%). The third and fourth places in this category were taken by Dance (16.1%) and R'N'B (13.5%).

The representative of the British Association of Phonogram manufacturers Jennaro Castaldo said that although the demand for pop music remains stable, the popularity of rock has recently been definitely observed.

According to him, the merit in this is not least belongs to the new groups: “Thanks to Arctic Monkeys , with their now almost cult status and such young performers as Jake Bagg and Bastille , rock music gains a connection with the new generation of students and experiences a very bright period.”

Of the other trends in the UK music market, a record drop in demand for R'N'B albums can be noted: their share has been the smallest since 1995, amounting to only 5.7% of the total sales.

In total, in 2013, 94 million music disks were sold in the UK - 6.4% less than in 2012. In addition, for the first time since the beginning of the 1980s, not a single album was dispersed by a millionth circulation.