Vinyl sales bigger than YouTube for British artists

Sales of vinyl records grow for eighth year in row, but labels attack 'meagre' payouts from advert-funded streaming websites

Resurgent sales of music on vinyl generated more income for UK artists than YouTube last year, with British acts including Adele and Ed Sheeran accounting for a record one in six of all the albums sold worldwide.

Vinyl sales grew for the eighth consecutive year in 2015 with more than 2m LPs sold in the UK, the most since at least 1994 when Wet Wet Wet and Bon Jovi were among the year's biggest artists.