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

[damnspynovels.livejournal.com]

furthermore, if this is the case and it does not indeed matter where we find a particular song, whether it be on Now 34, an artists Greatest Hits or like I said, their debut LP - will we see a time come in iTunes where i'm casually browsing through an artists collection, only to be confronted with a message akin to "did you know this album features that song from the Dairy Milk ad", even if I'm looking at the movie soundtrack for Risky Business?

[lockedintheatti.livejournal.com]

Yes, and when the last Now came out, people cherry-picked tracks off it and they re-entered the chart