After 7 Yr Decline Music Sales Up In 1st Half Of 2011
It's much too early to call this a trend, but after 7 years of decline Nielsen Soundscan data is showing that U.S. music sales are up for the first half of 2011. Through the week ending July 3:
- Album sales (physical and digital) were up almost 1%
- Track Equivalent Albums were up 3.6% to 221.5 million units, from 213.6 million a year ago.
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The album figures include compact discs and digital albums. Nielsen also counts 10 tracks sold individually as one album.
- The top-selling album was Adele's "21," with 2.5 million albums sold
- Lady Gaga's "Born This Way" was second with 1.5 million albums, thanks largely to the 99 cents promotion on Amazon
- Digital album sales are up 19%; and Digital tracks sales are up 11%.
- Overall music sales (albums, singles, music videos) are up 8.5%.
- Rap, Rock, Electronic, New Age, and Classical genres have all posted increases from 1% to 13%.
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Interesting news. I would like to know what kind of role did the lady gaga 99 cent deal with amazon played in all this.
Well Gaga sold about 1mil of them the first week so do the math. 1/236, out of them if I remember correcttly 400k was physical.
And wow for Adele..
Good news in general, I think people will get used to pay online for stuff more and more if its convenient so that is a very very good shift!
That’s great new…! Now how many of these stats are Indie driven ? vs Majors that’s what I wanna know..