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Since iTunes' climate-changing launch in 2003, the US public has fallen well in truly back in love with the single, with million sellers again becoming a common occurence. We investigate how the American music industry is adapting to its return to single life
Turn the clock back only a few years and the singles market in the US was on the critical list, rapidly heading into oblivion.
As annual sales plummeted to just 8.4m units in 2002 it seemed the age of the multi-million-selling single was dead, an industry relic that belonged as much in the past as the eight-track cartridge and mono recordings.
But the world's biggest music market is in the ...