The success of Adele, One Direction and Mumford & Sons helped push UK artists to their biggest-ever share of the US albums market last year.
New figures from the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) show the British stars accounted for a 13.7% share of album sales in 2012 across the US.
That compares with 11.7% the previous year, which at the time was the highest proportion of the century.
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