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Entries in cd sales trends (6)
September 2, 2009 CD Sales Trends
Via Hypebot >> NPD MusicWatch
CDs still comprised 65% of all music sold in the first half of 2009 with 35% going to digital. But CD numbers are falling rapidy. By comparison, in 2007 paid digital music downloads comprised just 20% of sales.
February 9, 2009 album sales in 2008
Coolfer reports…
Americans purchased 430 million million albums in 2008, 362 million of those CDs. Nielsen does not estimate retail value, but I’d ballpark it in the $6.1 to $6.4 billion range.
January 30, 2009 CD Baby sales stats...
HypeBot reports on sales increases at CD Baby.
- 1,013,478 CDs sold in 2008, compared to 993,175 discs in 2007, a 2% increase
- 39,100 new album titles added in 2008, up 7% from the prior year
- Digital distribution revenues for 2008 of $25.4 million, up 45% over 2007
- $34 million paid to artists in 2008, up 28% from prior year
cd sales trends, interesting numbers | tagged cd baby December 31, 2008 album and track sales numbers 2008
TimesOnline reports..
173,000 of the 1.23M albums available sold at least 1 copy last year.
That means 85% of albums did move a single copy all year.
80% of of all single track sales revenue came from 52,000 tracks.
March 4, 2008 digital music & cd sales trends...
According to All Things Digital
“While 1 million consumers dropped out of the CD-buyer market in 2007, 29 million acquired digital music legally. That’s an increase of 5 million over the previous year. Growth here was largely driven by the 36-to-50 age group.”