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

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Yes, even artists in singles-driven genres will tend to want to make albums.

I feel like an outlier statistic whenever reading about how people consume music, but physical singles are the most baffling: in this day and age, who still buys these and why?