Nielsen SoundScan�s 2007 "At A Glance"

03/23/07
. (PR) In 2007, Nielsen SoundScan has tracked more individual music purchases than ever in its history (YTD). Overall Consumer Music Purchase Decisions are up 19% (including all Album & individual Digital Track sales).

Consumers have made more than 46 million additional music purchase decisions this year than last year.
-288 million individual Digital Tracks vs. 242 million at this time last year.
- 99 million Albums vs. 119 million at the same time last year.

Overall Album purchases, including Track Equivalent Albums (total # of Digital track purchases divided by 10, in order to provide a like-for-like comparison with traditional Album purchases), are down 10% this year.
2007: 118 million
2006: 131 million

Sales of physical CDs have decreased 20% over last year.
2007: 89 million
2006: 112 million

CD sales account for 90% of Traditional Album sales (an Album purchased in its entirety, whether physical or digital).

Sales of Digital Albums have increased 100% over last year. Digital Album sales account for 10% of Traditional Album sales.

Sales of Individual Digital Tracks have increased 54% over last year.

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