arstechnica.com - 1/2/2009
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The music industry finished 2008 with positive sales growth numbers overall, but the grim CD death march continues apace. Overall unit purchases of music in the US increased by 10.5 percent year-over-year since 2007, according to new data released by Nielsen SoundScan, Nielsen BDS, and Nielsen ...
forums.toucharcade.com - 12/29/2008
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Sales of my Solitaire City game increased by
nearly 4 times on Christmas Day and Boxing Day...
and doubled on the days leading up to Christmas, so you'll be pleased to hear your sales data isn't a mistake ! Time to sing that horrible cheesy song ...
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Have you seen Christmas sales?
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... . * Nielsen’s music industry numbers for 2008 again show an industry in transition . Overall unit sales in the U.S. (physical albums, digital albums and tracks, and music videos) were up 10.5 percent over 2007, but it was digital albums (up 32 percent) and tracks (up 27 percent) ...
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CD sales dropped 20 percent in 2008, as reported by The Wall Street Journal . But this isn't the whole story. As Ars Technica points out , the music industry as a whole grew in 2008, with online sales accelerating. But this, too, doesn't tell the whole story. The real story behind this creative destruction is called out by rising revenues for organizations like ASCAP, and underlined in the Media Futurist blog , where Gerd Leonhard points out that the real shift in the music industry is away from copy-based license business toward ...
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