The people most interested in bestsellers are those doing the selling. No surprise, then, that a new list of the top-selling entertainment products in the UK last year was compiled by the Entertainment Retailers Association, a trade organisation representing vendors of music, video and video games, who have a vested interest in arranging their physical and digital shop windows. For the rest of us, the list provides an intriguing snapshot of the spire-tip of the cultural zeitgeist. Intriguing, that is, if it weren’t all quite so familiar. So recognisable are the names (or more precisely, the brands, as the late-capitalist machine refers to artists once they’ve been passed though its cultural sausage-maker) that your eyes slide, unsnagged, down from Ed Sheeran in the top spot, past the annual, incrementally tweaked update to the Fifa soccer video game series, and on through Star Wars and Harry Potter to trip only on the final rung, the soul singer with the voice of an archangel and the hunch of a doorman at a 24-hour Greggs: Rag’n’Bone Man.
Source : theguardian
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