The popularity of Ed Sheeran, elevated by the launch of his latest album, Divide, and his headline Glastonbury spot, helped drive total UK music sales 11.2% higher to £564m in the first half of 2017.
Overall, three-quarters of the £3bn of entertainment sector revenues are now accounted for by digital services and content.
Within this, digital sales of video games and content rose 11.9% to £1.226bn.
Adding the buoyant vinyl sales to those of CDs of albums and singles there was still an overall decline of 4% from 22.7m to 21.8m copies.