Nielsen SoundScan’s 2007

Nielsen SoundScan’s 2007 “At a Glance”

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.

*Data is through week ending 3-18-2007.

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