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The Past 30 Years of Record Sales (US)

Click on the link and go to the original post from Digital Music News for comments and all the 30 pie charts.

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Tender Forever - Believe (Cher cover)

Cover Friday!

I had this in my mind for quite a few months now. Finally I came across normalisr yesterday. Normalisr is “A little application to rank your favourite artists and albums by an estimation of how long you have spent listening to them.“ 

Eskimo Callboy - California Gurls (Kate Perry cover)

Soo for this cover friday the #4 of Billboard’s Hot 100 Songs of 2010

Bob Lefsetz on Tubeify

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Physical sales in a digital era

For decades, the music industry has been looking to the album charts to establish what made a hit. In the past 10 years, though, album sales have plummeted, sales of singles have surged and new sources of revenue have emerged — like fees for music streamed online and ringtone purchases — that are changing the definition of a hot artist.

Just wanna add that in the 90s the big labels stopped releasing singles afraid of the cannibalization of album sales.

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