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Mother's Day helps boost album sales.(The Market)
Providing a much-needed tonic for indifferent trading, the approach of Mother's Day helped to spur a 53.1% increase in album sales last week to 3,550,059--the highest level so far in 2006.
Artist album sales were up 50.2% at 2,936,379, while compilations soared 68.8% to 613,680.
X-Factor graduates Journey South (216,843 sales) and Andy Abraham (176,689) took the top two slots on the artist album chart but sales increased almost across the board, with only two of the Top 40 artist albums (On An Island by David Gilmour and Med by Placebo) suffering negative growth.
Compared to the same week (week 12) of 2005, overall album sales were up nearly 9.2%--but in 2005 that week was the one immediately prior to Easter Sunday, a rather different sort of celebration. It is more valid to compare last week to the week before Mother's Day last year, when it fell on March 6. In the week to March 5 2005, album sales totalled 3,633,914--2.4% more than last week.
Along with Journey South and Andy Abraham's excellent debuts, the rest of the top five artist albums recorded fine increases in sales--Corinne Bailey Rae's self-titled debut falls 1-3 even though its sales were ...
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- Magazine article from: Daily Variety Gallo, Phil July 3, 2008 700+ words
Album sales are down 11% from the midpoint...pace. Physical and digital album sales reached 204.6 million units in the 26 sales weeks between Dec. 31 and June...grow dramatically. Digital album sales are up 34% to 31.6 million...
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...in Beastie Boys album sales during a special...CDs. Beastie Boys album sales increased 265...during the three weeks following the Nov...compared to the three week period prior to...significant increases in album sales," said Tracie...
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- Magazine article from: Daily Variety Gallo, Phil January 11, 2007 700+ words
...1 on the nation's album sales chart with the lowest...chart topper. First week of the new year was a...66,000 copies in the week ended Sunday, making...SoundScan began tracking album sales. Carly Simon's collection...compilation, released a week before the 72nd anniversary...
- ALBUM SALES TAKE A NEW PLUNGE.(Life and Arts)
- Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) January 4, 2003 700+ words
...I NEWS SERVICES In more bad news for the music industry, album sales declined for the second straight year in 2002, down 10...music genres dipped in sales, with two exceptions: Country album sales rose about 12 percent, reversing a slight decline in 2001...
- jackson's album sales jump 37% from week before.(Daily Break)
- Newspaper article from: The Virginian Pilot July 17, 2009 700+ words
...Top 12 slots this week are all Jackson-related. (Last week Motown released a...In the last few weeks, the purchasing habits...physical CDs. In the week that ended June 28...percent of Jackson's album sales were downloads, an...
- Three 6 Mafia Tops the Charts With New Album Da Unbreakables; Best-selling...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire July 3, 2003 700+ words
...ensemble, has entered the Billboard Top 200 album sales chart at #4 and the Rap album sales chart at #1 with Da Unbreakables, the group...album debuted at #6 on Billboard's Top 200 album sales chart, and has sold well over one million...
- Ticketmaster, iTunes now feature digital album sales with concert...
- Newspaper article from: The Online Reporter November 10, 2007 700+ words
...Ticketmaster and Apple's iTunes are now integrating digital album sales along with concert tickets as part of a single transaction...ability to connect live and recorded music, concert tickets and album sales is the future of the music business," said David Marcus...
- Music biz booms.(news from Variety)(album sales)(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: Video Business Gallo, Phil June 20, 2005 700+ words
* After weeks of album sales that paled when...with 2004, the week the music business...five days in the week ended June 12. U.S. album sales were up nearly 7% over the prior week and about even...The first two weeks of May were the...
