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Published: January 9, 2009
Album sales plunge, digital downloads up
By The Associated Press
NASHVILLE , Tenn. — Music sales continued to slump in 2008 as the increased number of downloads of digital tracks failed to make up for a plunge in the sale of compact discs.

Year-end sales figures released recently by The Nielsen Co. show total album sales, including album equivalents made up of single digital tracks, fell to 428.4 million units, down 8.5 percent from 500.5 million in 2007.

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