Harry Styles and Top Gun Maverick boost entertainment industry with record sales
Harry Styles and Top Gun Maverick boost entertainment industry with record sales
Image source, ReutersBy Daniel Rosney and Steffan PowellEntertainment reporter and Gaming reporter
Harry Styles' album Harry's House and Top Gun Maverick with Tom Cruise helped drive record sales in the entertainment industry last year. body figures suggest so.
Total spent on home entertainment last year, including games, was £11.1bn sterling - 6.9% more than in 2021 and 39% more than the last pre-pandemic year of 2019.
In contrast, revenue UK box offices are up from 2021 but lower than before the pandemic.
The Digital Entertainment and Retail Association (ERA) has said that its preliminary figures were "a huge vote of confidence" for the sector.
Lockdown habits, with more people watching movies on streaming services than in film, remained, what ERA Chairman Ben Drury called "extraordinary".
"Few d people would have thought that we would remember...
Image source, ReutersBy Daniel Rosney and Steffan PowellEntertainment reporter and Gaming reporter
Harry Styles' album Harry's House and Top Gun Maverick with Tom Cruise helped drive record sales in the entertainment industry last year. body figures suggest so.
Total spent on home entertainment last year, including games, was £11.1bn sterling - 6.9% more than in 2021 and 39% more than the last pre-pandemic year of 2019.
In contrast, revenue UK box offices are up from 2021 but lower than before the pandemic.
The Digital Entertainment and Retail Association (ERA) has said that its preliminary figures were "a huge vote of confidence" for the sector.
Lockdown habits, with more people watching movies on streaming services than in film, remained, what ERA Chairman Ben Drury called "extraordinary".
"Few d people would have thought that we would remember...
Image source, Reuters
