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Ed Sheeran drives foreign sales for UK music

British record companies are enjoying a profits bonanza with overseas revenues up 11%.

Artists like Ed Sheeran, Adele, Coldplay and the Rolling Stones are helping the UK's music industry cash in.

Adam Sherwin, music reporter at the I newspaper, says UK artists accounted for one in eight albums sold globally last year.

(Picture: Ed Sheeran. 成人快手.)

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