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# SoundScan Offers Sign Of Hope Amidst Decline
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/soundscan_offer/
- Published: 2007-03-22T10:48:42.000Z
- Updated: 2007-03-22T10:48:42.000Z
- Description: Overall Consumer Music Purchase Decisions are up 19% including all Album & individual Digital Track sales. Consumers have made more than 46 million additional music purchase decisions this year than. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2007/03/soundscan_offer.html]
- Author: Bruce Houghton
- Tags: Vinyl, Cassettes & Retail, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-01-21 11:06

- [![Cd_many](https://hypebot.typepad.com/hypebot/images/2007/03/22/cd_many.jpg "Cd_many")](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2007/03/22/cd%5Fmany.jpg&ref=hypebot.com)  
Overall Consumer Music Purchase Decisions are up 19% including all Album & individual Digital Track sales.
- Consumers have made more than 46 million additional music purchase decisions this year than last year.  
  - 288 million individual Digital Tracks vs. 242 million at this time last year.
  - 99 million Albums vs. 119 million at the same time last year.
- Overall Album purchases, including Track Equivalent Albums (total # of Digital track purchases divided by 10, in order to provide a like-for-like comparison with traditional Album purchases), are down 10% this year.  
  - [![Soundscan_large](https://hypebot.typepad.com/hypebot/images/2007/03/22/soundscan_large.jpg "Soundscan_large")](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2007/03/22/soundscan%5Flarge.jpg&ref=hypebot.com)  
  2007: 118 million
  - 2006: 131 million
- Sales of physical CDs have decreased 20% over last year.  
  - 2007: 89 million
  - 2006: 112 million
- CD sales account for 90% of Traditional Album sales (an Album purchased in its entirety, whether physical or digital).
- Sales of Digital Albums have increased 100% over last year. Digital Album sales account for 10% of Traditional Album sales.
- Sales of Individual Digital Tracks have increased 54% over last year.

Data From Neilson SoundScan is through week ending 3-18-2007.