Harry Styles and Top Gun Maverick boost entertainment industry with record sales

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Early trade body figures suggest 'extraordinary' record sales in the entertainment sector.

Harry Styles' album Harry's House and Top Gun Maverick starring Tom Cruise helped drive record sales in the entertainment industry last year.

The total spent on home entertainment last year, including gaming, was £11.1bn - 6.9% up on 2021 and 39% up on the last pre-pandemic year of 2019.The digital entertainment and retail association said its preliminary figures were "a huge vote of confidence" for the sector. "Few would have believed we would retain the huge bounce in revenues seen when the Covid lockdown kept people at home," he said.Tom Cruise's sequel to 1986's Top Gun was the biggest-selling video title of 2022, although more than 800,000 of the 1.1 million sales were from "electronic sell-through" or downloads, the ERA said.

In years gone by people would rush excitedly to the shops on the release day of a big triple A game but these figures show that 90% of video games are now bought digitally.

 

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reporter dies a natural death. What next?

Ew. That Harry Styles guy is so dirty & creepy; like a 70s porn star. Just looking at his picture can make a person feel the need to get checked for STD gross

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