Album sales lowest in 12 years
By John Ifejika / News / April 16, 2012 / 1291 Views

It is no surprise that in this digital age of downloading piracy and mass record store closures, album sales have hit a 12-year low. According to Music Week, album sales were a mere 1,446,218 a week ago, down 27.62% and the lowest since the new millennium. However, there is still some hope, as artist are now turning their attention toward selling singles; those sales have steadily increased compared to last year.

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  • ZTGiby

    maybe the artists who make music for money will opt out of the game and that will leave us just the artists who are in it for the love of music!

  • http://twitter.com/SlackerK k K

    I dont know why the record industry try to ignore all the revenue theyre getting from people buying the tracks online

  • RIAA is lying!

    The record industry will continue to blame its problems on piracy to deflect from the fact that they helped put record stores out of business by selling to Best Buy, WalMart, Target, etc. at huge discounts that the record stores had no chance of being able to match. New record sales are a big deal for stores and the big box stores undercut the indie stores for long enough to kill their business. Now the big stores could care less about music.

  • http://twitter.com/martensight schmang it

    yet festivals and concerts are becoming much larger across country 

  • Jj

    but thats more money in the artist pocket, not really the label

  • Chasecrusher

    Hey that's the record store near my house!

  • Bluthstein

    exactly but, the Labels are still making money off downloads, and digital sales, the booking agency get's a percentage, the manager, the press agency, producer if there song is played live, so yeah the artist see's some chips but not as many as you think.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1794923670 Alvi Zaman

    That's a good thing

  • IV

    Adele went diamond in the past year...there is still hope

  • http://www.facebook.com/JPharaohVA JPharaoh Va

    Time for the industry to allow artists to make albums where all tracks are single worthy... Artist Development.. Quality over Quantity.. Problem solved..

  • Efw

    if you make music for the LOVE then you aren't in the music business...your just making music, and thats fine..but get over yourself

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2XgoEnybns&context=C47f0b1bADvjVQa1PpcFO3NilD15PCcga-fqVt-UkgbAfywMXrcSU= philliam

    ... it's like idk, now when i think of "artist"; the only thing that comes to mind is the power of co-signs