Nielsen SoundScan has released sales data for the first half of 2013, reporting a decline in individual digital track buying. For the first six months of the year (ending June 30), digital track sales were off 2.3 percent from 2012, to 682.2 million from 698 million a year earlier.
Billboard reports that Nielsen SoundScan recorded a 1.34 percent drop in digital single sales in the first quarter of 2013, with a 3.3 percent decline in Q2. At the halfway mark this year, 51 songs have sold over 1 million units, compared to 47 last year.
Album sales fell by 5.6 percent in...
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Billboard reports that Nielsen SoundScan recorded a 1.34 percent drop in digital single sales in the first quarter of 2013, with a 3.3 percent decline in Q2. At the halfway mark this year, 51 songs have sold over 1 million units, compared to 47 last year.
Album sales fell by 5.6 percent in...
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