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Downward spiral for music sales in 2007
the music press
tue 1/8/2008
- "2007 was not a good year for Latin music," writes Billboard, pinpointing that "the top-selling Latin album so far, Daddy Yankee's El Cartel: The Big Boss , had sold 248,000 copies as of December 2. In contrast, his Barrio Fino En Directo, the top-selling album of 2006, had sold 484,000 by year's end." The industry insider adds: "Aside from Mana ... and Juanes ... all the other acts to hit the [100k sales] mark have had sales histories more lucrative than this year's numbers reflect."
- The upturn in digital downloads has cushioned the blow, with Reuters underscoring that 477,000 units sold in 2007 "far exceeds the 293,000 digital album sales tallied for Latin music in 2006." It attributes the boost to "iTunes Latino's solidified status as a destination for a vast, well-catalogued library of music and by the proliferation of videos by Latin acts now found on YouTube. Ringtones and master ringtones are also growing sources of revenue for Latin labels."
- It's not just Latin music that is hurting, with Forbes magazine reporting that "[d]ouble-digit percentage sales declines were registered in most categories of music, including rock (12.5%), R&B (18.3%), alternative (19.2%), metal (13.9%), Christian/gospel (14.3%) and jazz (10.6%)." "[H]ip-hop has been hit particularly hard," writes the New York Times. "This was the year when the gleaming hip-hop machine — the one that minted a long string of big-name stars, from Snoop Dogg to OutKast — finally broke down, leaving rappers no alternative but to work harder, and for fewer rewards."
- For some acts, it's not all doom and gloom — Kanye West's Graduation went double platinum. Josh Groban's Noel sold 3.5 million units, giving the ailing his record company a much needed shot in the arm and making him "the rare person in the music industry singing a happy jolly tune this holiday season," according to Variety.com. Video games like Guitar Hero, Sing Star and Rock Band have also provided the ailing music industry with a small chunk of 10.5 billion dollars in sales, writes PC World: "2007 was a great year for the video game industry, driven largely by the rising popularity of music-based titles."
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