you don't listen to music too much do you? you know the name of an obscure 80s song that was only released originally as an Import single b/side Show No Mercy (later to be released on a greatest hits and on the re-issue of their self titled) yet you don't know one of the more popular songs from the mid 90s?
yes, actually CD sales are down %20 but overall total sales of music are up %19.
"INDUSTRY SALES MONITOR SOUNDSCAN OFFERS 2007 UPDATE: And another very interesting industry update, this time on the sales front (US industry figures): Nielsen SoundScan's 2007 At A Glance In 2007, Nielsen SoundScan has tracked more individual music purchases than ever in its history (YTD). Overall Consumer Music Purchase Decisions are up 19% (including all Album & indidivual Digital Track sales). Consumers have made more than 46 million additional music purchase decisions this year than last year. - 288 million individual Digital Tracks vs. 242 million at this time last year. - 99 million Albums vs. 119 million at the same time last year. Overall Album purchases, including Track Equivalent Albums (total # of Digital track purchases divided by 10, in order to provide a like-for-like comparison with traditional Album purchases), are down 10% this year. 2007 118 million / 2006 131 million Sales of physical CDs have decreased 20% over last year. 2007 89 million / 2006 112 million CD sales account for 90% of Traditional Album sales (an Album purchased in its entirety, whether physical or digital). Sales of Digital Albums have increased 100% over last year. Digital Album sales account for 10% of Traditional Album sales. Sales of Individual Digital Tracks have increased 54% over last year."
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you don't listen to music too much do you? you know the name of an obscure 80s song that was only released originally as an Import single b/side Show No Mercy (later to be released on a greatest hits and on the re-issue of their self titled) yet you don't know one of the more popular songs from the mid 90s?
yes, actually CD sales are down %20 but overall total sales of music are up %19.
"INDUSTRY SALES MONITOR SOUNDSCAN OFFERS 2007 UPDATE:
And another very interesting industry update, this time on the sales front (US industry figures):
Nielsen SoundScan's 2007 At A Glance
In 2007, Nielsen SoundScan has tracked more individual music purchases than ever in its history (YTD). Overall Consumer Music Purchase Decisions are up 19% (including all Album & indidivual Digital Track sales).
Consumers have made more than 46 million additional music purchase decisions this year than last year.
- 288 million individual Digital Tracks vs. 242 million at this time last year.
- 99 million Albums vs. 119 million at the same time last year.
Overall Album purchases, including Track Equivalent Albums (total # of Digital track purchases divided by 10, in order to provide a like-for-like comparison with traditional Album purchases), are down 10% this year.
2007 118 million / 2006 131 million
Sales of physical CDs have decreased 20% over last year.
2007 89 million / 2006 112 million
CD sales account for 90% of Traditional Album sales (an Album purchased in its entirety, whether physical or digital).
Sales of Digital Albums have increased 100% over last year. Digital Album sales account for 10% of Traditional Album sales.
Sales of Individual Digital Tracks have increased 54% over last year."
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