Sentences with phrase «album sales declined»

U.S. album sales declined in 2017 as streaming continues to grow, according to Nielsen's year - end music report released this week.

I do find the arguments that somewhat cheaper books will hurt creative output of said books to be shaky — if that held up, music output would have shrunk as album sales declined.

Not exact matches

Billboard reports that sales of tracks declined 5.7 percent, to 1.34 billion units, while album sales fell 0.1 percent, to 117.6 million.

Comparable store sales declined 8.3 % for the quarter largely due to lower traffic, as well as the decline in coloring books, artist supplies and last year's best - selling album by Adele, which collectively accounted for nearly one third of the sales decline.

The drop was attributed to various factors, including slower foot traffic in stores, the declining sales of adult coloring books, and no bestselling album by Adele.

The sales decrease was largely due to lower traffic, as well as the decline in coloring books and artist supplies — a reversal of last year's phenomenon — and the comparison to last year's best - selling album by Adele — the largest selling CD in our history — which combined accounted for approximately one third of the sales decline.

The top five news included stories on Apple's U2 free album promotion, J.A. Konrath's 15 tips to increase sales, Joanna Penn's three - year author - entrepreneur anniversary, the decline of Nook and Amazon's new $ 2.7 million KDP Select All - Stars program.

This directly contradicts the much cited and controversial conclusion of Andersen and Frenz... AF claimed that the data showed ``... no association between the number of P2P files downloaded and CD album sales,» claiming therefore that ``... this paper show (sic) that P2P file - sharing is not to blame for the decline in CD markets.

I can think of a perfectly good, and far more believable, alternative explanation: CDs are a dying format, and when their only value is as an intermediate step (manual ripping, metadata tagging, and album art sourcing still required) towards listening to the songs on them on a tiny flash memory - based playback device, sales will decline as alternative sources become available that don't require the extra effort, don't junk up shelves with unwanted packaging, don't cost as much to buy, etc..