Digital album downloads – a market which is dominated by iTunes – dropped 9.4% to 106.5m.īut it’s in the physical world where things get interesting. Total album sales in the States dropped by 11.2% to 257m in 2014. Independent stores and ‘non-traditional’ retailers? They’re doing just fine. And it appears the album might not be completely doomed after all – so long as it’s not being sold in a massive retailer like Wal-Mart. If you’re an LP fan – and considering they’re still the industry’s most lucrative product, you probably are – the stats make for depressing reading: according to Nielsen Soundscan data, full-year LP sales in the US across all formats dropped by a shocking 61.5% between 20 – from 667m all the way down to 257m.īut now Nielsen has released its in-depth report about 2014 in the States.
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