7-18-13
According to Nielsen SoundScan and Nielsen BDS, there were over 50 billion audio and video streams in the first six months of 2013, an increase of 24 percent over the same period in 2012. Nielsen VP of Entertainment David Bakula says, ?Streaming continues to be a tremendous growth story. Not only are we seeing massive volume of streams, but we continue to see growth on a comparable provider basis." Sales of vinyl records are also making a comeback.
Bakula says, ?Overall sales are down slightly in the first half of 2013, but there continues to be encouraging growth in digital album sales. Digital albums now comprise 43 percent of all album sales, up from 38 percent at this time last year. Also, while a small percentage of the overall album sales, vinyl LPs continue to be an amazing growth story with sales up 33 percent over last year?s record-setting pace.?
Sales of albums and track equivalents were down 4.6 percent vs. the first six months of 2012. Digital albums are up 6.3 percent and digital tracks were down 2.3 percent. CD sales declined 14.2 percent.
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