Los Angeles - More than one billion digital song downloads have been sold so far this year, an increase of 28% from 2007, according to Nielsen SoundScan figures cited by Billboard. SoundScan projects that a total of 1.04 billion digital tracks will have been sold by year's end. The top digital track of 2008 so far is "Bleeding Love" by Leona Lewis, which has racked up 3.3 million download sales.

Los Angeles - Despite a 45% increase in digital sales, overall U.S. music album sales fell 9.5% in 2007, the Associated Press reported, citing data from Nielsen SoundScan. Physical album sales totaled 500.5 million in 2007, down 15% from a year ago; however, when digital tracks are counted in tens, to represent an album's typical length, album sales dropped 9.5% overall.

Los Angeles - Global recorded music sales were down for the seventh consecutive year in 2006, when CD and physical sales fell 11% to $17.5 billion, while digital music sales climbed 85% to $2.1 billion, according to data from the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), an international record label trade group.