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Published: January 11, 2008
Music industry's 2007 stats offer little hope for access to best songs
That death rattle you hear has a bad beat, and you cannot dance to it.
This week, Nielsen SoundScan made it official: The music industry cratered in 2007. Total compact disc sales fell 19 percent over the past year, and while digital downloads were on the upswing, the rise in online sales was not enough to make up for the CD shortfall. The total drop in album sales — digital or old-school plastic — was 15 percen...
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