Yo-Yo Ma Album Sells More Digital Copies Than CDs in First Week

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on January 18, 2007 - 1:57pm.

New York - Classical music label Sony BMG Masterworks announced on Thursday that recording artist Yo-Yo Ma has become the first in the label's history to sell more digital than physical copies of an album in its first week on sale. Released on Jan. 9, "Appassionato" hit #1 on Billboard's Top Classical chart, #79 on the Billboard Top 200, and was #4 on iTunes for the week, with 57.1% of all sales made being digital.