Us Album Sales Hit New All-time Low

Hugh McIntyre, Contributor, Forbes
Sat, 08/30/2014 - 7:00am

This week, for the first time since SoundScan began tracking music sales back in 1991, weekly album sales have fallen under four million. For the past charting week, there were only 3.97 million albums sold—a figure that includes physical and digital sales. Last year, album sales were just about one million [...]

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