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By Daniel Rosney and Steffan Powell
Entertainment newsman and Gaming reporter
Harry Styles' medium Harry's House and Top Gun Maverick starring Tom Cruise helped thrust grounds income successful the amusement manufacture past year.
The 2 releases sold the astir successful the euphony and video sectors respectively, aboriginal commercialized assemblage figures suggest.
The full spent connected location amusement past year, including gaming, was £11.1bn - 6.9% up connected 2021 and 39% up connected the past pre-pandemic twelvemonth of 2019.
In contrast, UK container bureau takings are up connected 2021 but lower than pre-pandemic.
The integer amusement and retail relation (ERA) said its preliminary figures were "a immense ballot of confidence" for the sector.
Lockdown habits, with much radical watching films connected streaming services than successful the cinema, person stuck, which ERA Chairman Ben Drury described arsenic "extraordinary".
"Few would person believed we would clasp the immense bounce successful revenues seen erstwhile the Covid lockdown kept radical astatine home," helium said.
Tom Cruise's sequel to 1986's Top Gun was the biggest-selling video rubric of 2022, though much than 800,000 of the 1.1 cardinal income were from "electronic sell-through" oregon downloads, the ERA said.
Subscription platforms - similar Amazon Prime, Netflix and Now TV - grew by astir 18% compared with 2021 to £3.85bn, present accounting for 87% of the video market.
The gaming manufacture inactive came retired connected top, accounting for £4.7bn of income successful the UK successful 2022 - higher than that of the film, tv oregon euphony sectors - but the spread is narrowing.
In years gone by radical would unreserved excitedly to the shops connected the merchandise time of a large triple A crippled but these figures amusement that 90% of video games are present bought digitally.
When it comes to who the nationalist chose to perceive to, it was Harry Styles who topped the year's biggest-selling medium list, arsenic good arsenic the azygous database with his deed As It Was.
British stars were responsible for each of the UK's apical 10 astir fashionable singles successful 2022, for the archetypal clip since year-end charts began implicit 50 years ago.
Music income grew to their highest level since 2003. Physical income came down but gross from streaming sties similar Spotify and Apple Music person gone up, earning the manufacture astir £2bn.
ERA CEO Kim Bayley claimed "music is wrong show of exceeding £2bn successful retail income worth for the archetypal clip successful much than 2 decades".
The afloat study volition beryllium released successful March.
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