Welcome back everyone!!!! Happy 2009!!!
Hope all had a merry Christmas and a festive new year! We want to wish everyone a safe, fun and positive 2009. Even more, let's hope the music in 2009 can be even better compared to 2008. There's a few new releases coming out early in 09' (Franz Ferdinand, Lily Allen, Antony and The Johnsons and Andrew Bird) and we can only hope they kick off what potentially could be a sweet sweet year.
A quick note that passed through the office yesterday was that music sales have topped 1.5 billion units for the first time ever in the USA.
Despite the constant perceived drop in the music biz, digital sales have fuelled the most successful year ever for total sales in the US music industry.
1,513 million sales were tallied during 2008 according to Nielsen SoundScan. That was up from 1,369 million last year or a 10.5% increase.
While overall album sales were down 8.5%%, digital album sales were up 32%. More people bought albums digitally than ever before last year. Digital albums accounted for 65.8 million sales.
The real surprise was the increase in vinyl sales. They were up 89% this year, albeit on a small total figure of 1.88 million.
More than 1 billion tracks were sold digitally in 2008. Digital track sales sold 1,070 million last year.
We won't mention who the best selling digital artist or best selling digital song was because they would never get a mention on Music Universe. However, we can tell you that the top selling digital album was 'Viva La Vida’ by Coldplay. Yes.
Hope all had a merry Christmas and a festive new year! We want to wish everyone a safe, fun and positive 2009. Even more, let's hope the music in 2009 can be even better compared to 2008. There's a few new releases coming out early in 09' (Franz Ferdinand, Lily Allen, Antony and The Johnsons and Andrew Bird) and we can only hope they kick off what potentially could be a sweet sweet year.
A quick note that passed through the office yesterday was that music sales have topped 1.5 billion units for the first time ever in the USA.
Despite the constant perceived drop in the music biz, digital sales have fuelled the most successful year ever for total sales in the US music industry.
1,513 million sales were tallied during 2008 according to Nielsen SoundScan. That was up from 1,369 million last year or a 10.5% increase.
While overall album sales were down 8.5%%, digital album sales were up 32%. More people bought albums digitally than ever before last year. Digital albums accounted for 65.8 million sales.
The real surprise was the increase in vinyl sales. They were up 89% this year, albeit on a small total figure of 1.88 million.
More than 1 billion tracks were sold digitally in 2008. Digital track sales sold 1,070 million last year.
We won't mention who the best selling digital artist or best selling digital song was because they would never get a mention on Music Universe. However, we can tell you that the top selling digital album was 'Viva La Vida’ by Coldplay. Yes.
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