After a year full of tepid commercial releases for Hip Hop, a new year-end report from Nielsen Musicconfirms that Rap album sales fell deeply in 2014 and suffered at nearly double the rate of the rest of the music industry.
According to Billboard's reporting of Nielsen Music's annual wrap-up, Hip Hop albums sold 24.1% less last year than in 2013 with CD sales specifically falling 29.6% over the same time period.
By contrast, digital sales fell 21.8% genre-wide. R&B sales fell even more sharply as the breakdown of "total/CD/digital percent declines were 25.1/29.0/19.6," according to the same report.
On the other hand, Hip Hop and R&B both spiked...
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According to Billboard's reporting of Nielsen Music's annual wrap-up, Hip Hop albums sold 24.1% less last year than in 2013 with CD sales specifically falling 29.6% over the same time period.
By contrast, digital sales fell 21.8% genre-wide. R&B sales fell even more sharply as the breakdown of "total/CD/digital percent declines were 25.1/29.0/19.6," according to the same report.
On the other hand, Hip Hop and R&B both spiked...
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