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Likewise, Honda Motor sales set a June record, with 88,928 vehicles sold, an increase of 8percentt from the month a year earlier.

Last year, a record 786 million bags, bowls and heads of lettuce were sold, an increase of more than 23.5 million on the year before.

But in those few hours, sales of "Back to Back" reappeared on the British chart at No. 59, with 2,446 albums sold, an increase of 299 percent from the week before, according to the Official UK Charts Company.

Last year nearly 1.2 billion individual tracks were sold, an increase of only 1 percent from 2009; the previous year digital track sales rose 8 percent, and the year before that 27 percent.

In the UK, album sales actually saw a rise, in total, 135.1 million albums were sold, an increase of 9.5%.

There's even a greater increase in overall ticket sales, as 18.6 million tickets were sold, an increase of 11.3% over the same period last year.

He said profits continued to grow despite the sales fall as WH Smith cut £11m of costs and sold an increased amount of more profitable items including stationery, headphones and souvenirs.

It will be extremely hard to sell an increase in foreign workers during a recession.

The state requires utilities to gradually sell an increasing amount of electricity from renewable sources, with a requirement of 25percentt of total sales by 2025.

The Boston Symphony Orchestra, with more than 24,000 subscribers, has begun to sell an increasing number of 6- to 7-concert series, down from series of 20 to 23 concerts over the last decade.

Aside from advertisements -- most often to companies like Motorola, Red Bull and Reebok that are intent on reaching foreign markets -- the N.B.A. is selling an increasing amount of so-called premium content, Ms. Spoonemore said.