Canadian Music Industry Year End Report
Overall music purchases were up nearly 10% from 2005 . Nearly 15 million digital tracks were purchased; an increase of 122% over 2005 The top 200 tracks. Continue reading
Coalition of Independent Music Stores Top 200 for Week Ending 01-14-07
1 BEATLES|LOVE 2 MAYER*JOHN|VILLAGE SESSION EP 3 MOS DEF|TRU3 MAGIC 4 WAITS*TOM|ORPHANS 5 TV ON THE RADIO|RETURN TO COOK 6 CALE/CLAPTON|ROAD TO ESCONDIDO 7 SPEKTOR*REGINA|BEGIN TO HOPE 8 CASE*NEKO|LIVE. Continue reading
IFPI Publishes Digital Music Report 2007
Highlights of the report: Digital music sales estimated to double to around US$2 billion in 2006 Single track downloads estimated up 89% at 795 million Available tracks double to four. Continue reading
Can The Record Store Survive?
With music sales down another 5% last year, consumers moving towards downloads and big box retailers stealing hit product sales can anything like the record shop of yesteryear survive? Some. Continue reading
A Sad Weak For CD Sales
Ouch. Overall CD sales were slow for the week ending January 7th down 18% over the same week in 2006. It took the Dreamgirls soundtrack only 66,000 units to top. Continue reading
Final ’06 CD Sales Down. Even Digital Misses Projections
U.S. music sales which include CDs and digital album downloads fell 4.9% in 2006 according to Nielsen SoundScan. U.S. album sales fell to 588.2 million from 618.9 million in 2005.. Continue reading
Transworld Says Holiday Sales Down 6%
Trans World who operate stores under the Coconuts, Strawberries, Wherehouse, Sam Goody and Spec’s names is reporting a comparable store sales decrease of 6% for the five-week period ending December. Continue reading
’06 “Death Of The Blockbuster CD” Stats
Long Tail author and WIRED editor Chris Anderson took a look at the "death-of-the-blockbuster stats" for 2006. Most teliing s the decline in gold, platinum, multiplatinum albums (respectively 500,000, 1,000,00. Continue reading
More 2007 Music Industry Predictions
In addition to Hypebot’s own 2007 Music Industry predictions, we found some others willing to gaze into their own crystal balls with some interesting results: Bob Lefsetz’s predictions include: EMI. Continue reading
It Was A Blue Chrsitmas For Music Even With Digital Sales
The IPod, portable music devices, and home entertainment centers we’re among the hottest sellers this holiday season. But that didn’t mean that consumers then rushed to stores or online to. Continue reading
