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

[lockedintheatti.livejournal.com]

Yeah, they did, as the tracks were available as separate downloads (as are most albums). It's easy enough for a record company to stop this from happening, by making it so you can only download the whole album at once. Interestingly that doesn't happen often.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Didn't it just happen in the US with Estelle? For like two weeks and then they realised it was a massive mistake.

A couple of times I've seen one or two tracks from an album unavailable individually but it's less likely to be the big singles than the bonus tracks or any particularly long tracks - eg you can't buy Erykah Badu's 'I Want You' (which is 10min plus) individually, you have to buy the whole Worldwide Underground album (though you can buy every other track individually.

[lockedintheatti.livejournal.com]

Yeah, happened with Estelle.

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

elbow did it, didn't they?