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

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

'so we can deduce there's some method which stops an 'album sale' having an effect on the singles chart'

yes, very dodgy ground here but it may just come down to how many times people are clicking 'buy album' rather than grabbing all or enough of the tracks individually. obviously there's a threshold before buying only the tracks you like on an album becomes uneconomical. they've been astute to keep the prices of 'albums' online fixed but cynical in making it still possible to buy all or most of the tracks individually and spend a lot more in the process - but yes only a fool would do that!