NewJeans, Twice, Seventeen, and even BTS member Jung Kook. All of those artists saw at least one of their efforts sell at least 200,000 copies on CD alone.

The firm said sales were being phased out, although it would continue to sell vinyl records in some stores. CD sales have shrunk in the past decade but were still worth £115m last year.

This has led to a steady decline of DVD and Blu-Ray sales in the past decade and some retailers, such as supermarket Sainsbury's, no longer sell CDs and DVDS due to dwindling returns. DVDs sales ...