Nielsen SoundScan to Track Pan-European Digital Music Downloads

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on January 25, 2006 - 9:14am.

White Plains, N.Y. - Nielsen SoundScan International, a provider of audience ratings information, announced on Wednesday that over 32 million songs were downloaded from European digital music services in 2005. The company tracks sales data from more than 110 download services in 17 countries. Nielsen's Pan-European Digital Tracks Chart for the week ending January 22 found that the Artic Monkeys' "When the Sun Goes Down" was the top-selling song, followed by Notorious B.I.G.'s "Nasty Girl" and Richard Ashcroft's "Break the Night with Colour."
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