Factoid

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

According to this morning's paper, 2008 is set to be the highest-selling year for singles EVER, with total sales topping 100m for the first time (compared to 1979's 89m). Obviously physical sales are a miniscule proportion of this but even so, that's a lot of sales. (And christ only knows how many non-sale downloads are going on).

I was a bit surprised by this!

Comments

[vumgarda.livejournal.com]

Because people who want 2 old songs by a band (which wouldn't be easily available on their own) now download 2x'single' rather than buy 1xalbum, innit. If you just looked at equivalents to things that would have been available before, sales must be well down.

[vumgarda.livejournal.com]

Damn, beaten.