News 2007 Stats
posted by on January 3 at 17:19 PM
It’s hard out here for a music industry.
Overall U.S. album sales sank 9.5% in 2007, worsening from a decline of 1.2% in 2006. Music purchases slumped across all major genres, according to Nielsen SoundScan. Even the one bright spot had a shadow cast over it: Sales of song downloads grew 45%, but that was slower growth than 2006’s 65%.Overall album sales tumbled to 584.9 million units last year, from 646.4 million units in 2006.
Follow the link to find out what the top-selling album of 2007 was. Hint: it came out the second week of October.
It's confusing that they talk about total album sales, then credit those number with Nielsen SoundScan data, which I assumed would account only for CD's sold in stores. Either way, they then go on to site download numbers that would exceed the total units lost between 2006 and 2007, which is the supposed sales slump they're addressing.
2nd week of October! You got me hook line and sinker with that one. Nice work, Frizzelle.
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