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Album Sales In America Just Hit An All-Time Low
Business Insider ^ | 08/30/2014 | Rob Wile

Posted on 08/31/2014 8:01:05 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

U.S. album sales hit 3.97-million last week, the smallest weekly total for album sales since Nielsen SoundScan first began tracking data in 1991, Billboard's Ed Christman and Glenn Peoples report.

It's also the first time during that period that weekly sales have fallen below 4 million, they write.

Sales for the week ending August 25 fell 18.6%. The best seller was rapper Whiz Khalifa's "Blacc Hollywood" which debuted with 90,000 units, Billboard says. For the first time in more than a year,  sales for the soundtrack to Disney's "Frozen" fell below 100,000 units.

CD sales have practically vanished, down 19.2% year-over-year, with sales at mass merchants and chains down mass merchants and chains have fallen 23 percent and 25.6 percent, respectively.

And even digital sales are faltering, with digital album sales off 11.7% and track sales down 12.8%.

(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Music/Entertainment; Society
KEYWORDS: albums; bigmedia; billboardcharts; music; musicindustry; sales; soundscan
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1 posted on 08/31/2014 8:01:05 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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Bring back vinyl.


2 posted on 08/31/2014 8:05:10 PM PDT by moovova
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kinda hard to sell stuff to the free sh!t nation...

somebody steals the cd and posts it online, who's gonna buy it when they can download it for free?

3 posted on 08/31/2014 8:05:12 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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To: SeekAndFind
I'm buying lots of albums - digitally. Do they take into account the sales of mp3 music in their tally?



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4 posted on 08/31/2014 8:06:49 PM PDT by ConorMacNessa (HM/2 USN, 3/5 Marines RVN 1969 - St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in Battle!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Lower than the 1850’s? That is bad.


5 posted on 08/31/2014 8:09:48 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: SeekAndFind

When you can rent a huge library for less than the cost of a CD Why buy?


6 posted on 08/31/2014 8:11:17 PM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin (It's a shame nobama truly doesn't care about any of this. Our country, our future, he doesn't care)
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To: SeekAndFind
The music sales industry has changed so much and so quickly....the casual observer cannot see what has happened.

Mechanical media (CDs, tapes, etc) are a thing of the past (although I personally still prefer CDs- I buy from Amazon)

Today, even downloads are becoming a thing of the past because people subscribe to streaming services such as Spotify or Rhapsody...which are sort of a *Juke Box in the Sky*.

Artists are begging for scraps- they make next to nothing from streaming audio. The only *real* money left in the music business lies with the publishers.

7 posted on 08/31/2014 8:12:40 PM PDT by Victor (If an expert says it can't be done, get another expert." -David Ben-Gurion, the first Prime Minister)
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To: SeekAndFind

They still sell albums?

In all seriousness, I haven’t heard new music I liked enough to spend money on in a while.


8 posted on 08/31/2014 8:14:16 PM PDT by .45 Long Colt
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To: SeekAndFind

Good. Let Hollywood... movies, TV, and Music... die.


9 posted on 08/31/2014 8:20:17 PM PDT by DesScorp
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To: .45 Long Colt

Yep.

If you want to sell music, first it helps to have music, and no, Beyonce does not count as music.


10 posted on 08/31/2014 8:20:20 PM PDT by chris37 (heartless)
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To: moovova

Bring back good music.


11 posted on 08/31/2014 8:23:06 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Victor

Heck I can pretty much go to YouTube to hear anything I want.


12 posted on 08/31/2014 8:23:52 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: SeekAndFind

The last time I saw a CD for sale in a store, it cost over $15. I considered it laughably overpriced, because it probably had 2 good songs.


13 posted on 08/31/2014 8:28:25 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy ("Harvey Dent, can we trust him?" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBsdV--kLoQ)
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To: SeekAndFind

About what most new music is worth


14 posted on 08/31/2014 8:35:02 PM PDT by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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To: .45 Long Colt

Good music is out there. It just will never be played on modern radio or make the popular culture in the foreseeable future, in my opinion.

FReegards


15 posted on 08/31/2014 8:41:59 PM PDT by Ransomed
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To: SeekAndFind

What’s an album?


16 posted on 08/31/2014 8:45:00 PM PDT by Veggie Todd (The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. TJ)
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To: chris37; .45 Long Colt

Agree with you both. Haven’t heard anything in years, since about the ‘80’s I guess worth putting out the hard earned cash to purchase.

I’ve been updating my collection of CD’s purchasing online the older music I either lost, or never got around to purchasing back when.


17 posted on 08/31/2014 8:46:18 PM PDT by rockinqsranch ((Dems, Libs, Socialists, call 'em what you will. They ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.))
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To: nickcarraway
Lower than the 1850’s?

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18 posted on 08/31/2014 8:47:28 PM PDT by Ken H
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To: moovova

Bring back decent music.


19 posted on 08/31/2014 8:49:31 PM PDT by bgill
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To: SeekAndFind

I have a ton of CDs, but I don’t listen to new music. I listen to classical and Sinatra mostly. I have all off Sinatra’s albums, so I don’t need more (unless they are SACDs). I still buy classical; either pieces that are new to me, or different versions by different conductors of pieces I already have. However, I don’t listen to any new music.


20 posted on 08/31/2014 8:52:06 PM PDT by Sans-Culotte (Psalm 14:1 ~ The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.”)
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