According to the figures, out of 60,331 releases, only 32 titles generated sales of more than one million. 94 albums sold 500,000 or more and 410 albums (less than 1%) sold more than 100,000 units.

The Top 32 albums sold collectively 57.2 million copies and the Top 410 albums represented around 70% of total sales for the year.

The number of albums released in 2005 was up 35.6% on the previous year and 58.2% on 2003.

Of the 60,331 albums released, only 11,070 (or 18.4%) were by the major labels However, the average major label release sold 18,454 units compared to the average Indie release which sold just 787 units. Independent labels released 81.6% of all releases.

The upside of the downturn on the music industry is digital sales. 16,580 releases were available digitally only. Digital accounted for 865,424 units or on average 52 units per digital only release.