Report: Album Sales Down 17.8% in May; Digital Down 13.1%

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on June 4, 2009 - 10:11am.
Los Angeles - U.S. album sales were down 17.8% in May compared to the same period a year ago, and 36.7% lower than sales reported in May 2007, Billboard reported.

For the year so far through the end of May, album sales are down 13.4% from 2008.

Digital album sales were also down 13.1% in May, and are down 7.6% so far this year.

Digital track sales posted only modest gains during the month, showing gains of 5%, 6%, 2% and 5%, respectively, across the four weeks in May, according to Billboard.

Related Links:
http://snipurl.com/jg868
(Billboard)

Comments

Post new comment

The content of this field is kept private and will not be shown publicly.