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There can’t be many places in the world where physical music sales are going up, so music industry experts will be rushing to work out why shipments went up 9% in Japan last year. Even more bizarrely, the act responsible for the greatest amount of those sales is a 91 (yes 91) member girl group with the catchy name AKB48. Even Sugababes haven’t had that many members…