Santa loves Madonna

Online retailer Amazon was celebrating a record Christmas sales haul today after its UK arm delivered as many as 480,000 gifts a day.

Madonna led music sales with her “Confessions On A Dance Floor” album, followed by “Now That’s What I Call Music! Vol 62” and “Intensive Care” by Robbie Williams.

Amazon.co.uk shipped more than 256 tonnes of goods on its busiest day – with a Royal Mail truck leaving one of its three distribution centres every 15 minutes. Across the worldwide business, customers ordered 3.6m items on its busiest day, 12 December, equivalent to 41 items every second. More than 108m orders were placed globally during the whole of the holiday season.

Based on an article by Thisismoney.co.uk