Have you ever wondered how music is purchased with the advent of online distribution (Apple iTunes, Amazon, Google)?
According to today's SJMercury:
Album (digital) : 103 million
Album (CD) : 225 million
Singles (digital) : 1.27 billion
Was surprised the large CD album count. Might be attributable to the fact that albums in the CD format is not that much more expensive, but comes with the lost-in-the-mp3-digitial-age album cover. When I was younger, half of the magic was looking at the cover, reading the lyrics, while I listened away. Remember those days of looking the the Police's Synchonicity album? How about the Chevy (or Ford or GM) on the Car's album?
Another non-surprise : why buy entire albums when you can buy the one single that you only cared about?
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