Do Record Sales Reports Reflect Reality?

January 30, 2006

Still can’t get over end-of-year reports about how the recording industry is hurting. Album sales reports from the recording industry portray a gloom and doom scenario, with the headline – “Album sales hit nine-year low in 2005.” How about this info: “U.S. music album sales last year slid to their lowest level since 1996, squelching any hopes that the recording industry's long downward spiral may have bottomed out.” Remember the words "album sales" (as in CD).

Hello! Let's make the numbers say what they want ... How about Nielsen SoundScan reports that overall music sales, which include albums, singles, music videos and digital tracks, jumped 22.7% to more than 1 billion units last year.

What do you think everyone is doing with those iPods?  Maybe it’s not $12 for a CD at the "brick and mortar" retailer, but at 99 cents a song, the ka-ching can get pretty loud!



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  1. jf :
    February 1, 2006 11:12 AM

    Maybe the reason album sales continue to slump is because the quality of music coming out stinks. Most of these albums are based on a single or two while the rest of the album is utter garbage. No wonder people will download singles instead of buying albums!!! Let's face it, pop music is marketed on image not quality, sooner or latter the image becomes boring and all you are left with is unimaginative, overly produced junk!!!


  1. Randy Savicky :
    February 1, 2006 12:14 PM

    I couldn't have said it better myself ...


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