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Creativity is GREAT Britain

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1. British musical artists such as Adele, Coldplay and Jay Sean accounted for almost 12 per cent of global sales of recorded music during 2010. As the second-largest exporter of music in the world, UK music has won 23 Grammies in the past three years alone.

2. The UK produces more than a quarter of the world’s computer games, and nearly half the world’s top 100 computer games development companies are based in the UK – including major international studios such as Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo.

3. The UK has the largest creative sector per head in the world.

4. Contemporary British fine artists are renowned the world over for their daring and innovative work – Steve McQueen, Tracey Emin, Sam Taylor-Wood and Chris Ofili.

5. Britain now boasts over 100 film studios, nearly 5,000 film production companies and 2,500 post-production companies, while 4 of the world’s largest visual effects firms are based in Soho, London. UK films have won 21 Oscars in the past 5 years and the UK is one of the world’s leading producers of TV formats, with programmes such as the X Factor and Strictly Come Dancing shown in over 70 countries.