For the 52-week period ending December 28th, according to retail data collected by Nielsen SoundScan:
- Physical album sales were down 20%
- Overall album sales dropped 14% after digital was added
- This follows a 15% drop in ’07 and represents a 45% decline since a high in 2000
- Digital track sales were up 27%
- Down from a 45% rise in ’07
- Digital album sales grew 32% to 65.8 million units
- Down from a 53% rise in ’07
- Ringtone sales fell 33% to 43.8 million units
- Only 1 sold 2M (Lil Wayne’s Lollipop ); in ’07 3 did.
