Album sales show McCartney still in demand
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LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - Paul McCartney has the answer to that question he posed so mirthfully 40 years ago. Music fans still need him, and are willing to feed him at 64. With his new release, he realized the biggest sales week of any of his studio albums in Nielsen SoundScan history.
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In a slow week for the Billboard chart, Alicia Keys reached No. 2 with 112,000 sales of âAs I Amâ (J); Mary J. Blige moved 89,000 of âGrowing Painsâ (Geffen) to reach No. 3; âNow Thatâs What I Call Music!â Vol. 26 is at No. 4 with 54,000; and the 18-year-old country singer Taylor Swift rose three spots to No. 5, though sales of her self-titled album, on the Big Machine label, dropped 39 percent last week to 47,000, Nielsen SoundScan reported. Radiohead reached No. 1 with the conventional release of âIn Rainbows,â through the ATO label, on CD and other formats. The indie-rock âJunoâ soundtrack (Rhino), popular online, opened at No. 8 with 38,000.
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That&#39;s the number of music players that Apple Computer (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) said it sold in its most recent quarter.
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The Beatles are asking $15mn for six months&#39; exclusive rights to sell their catalogue online, according to a News.com report. If true, such a high premium would almost certainly price the world&#39;s biggest selling
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Apple Computer Inc. AAPL.O on  Thursday said sales of songs bought from its market-leading  iTunes online music store had topped 200 million, a figure that  was about in line with what some analysts had been expecting.
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The Beatles, trading as Apple Corp, won&#39;t let it be when it comes to Apple Computer&#39;s forays into the music business. Photo: Getty Images.
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50 Cent may be getting hip-hop's equivalent of a gold watch next week. Early reports have Kanye West beating 50 in their much-hyped battle of album sales: West's "Graduation" is on pace to sell about 575,000 to 700,000 its first week out, while 50 Cent's "Curtis" is on track to do 550,000, according to Billboard magazine.
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Business & money: Figures from Apple suggest that the iPod may be reaching  market saturation
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Record companies' revenue from digital music sales rose 40 percent to $2.9 billion over the past year, but the growth is still failing to cover losses from collapse of international CD sales, the music industry's global trade body said Thursday.
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The numbers suggest that iPods are not driving iTunes sales as much as early supporters may have expected.
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Apple has revealed that it has sold more than 150 million songs trough its online music store, iTunes. The company said that iTunes users are now downloading more than four million songs a week, a rate of over 200 million songs a year.
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Whatever the price, Radiohead's "In Rainbows" is a top-seller.
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A guitar played by George Harrison of the Beatles was sold for &#36;567,500 on Friday, topping the bill at what auction house Christie's said was its biggest ever sale of show business memorabilia.
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Physical CD sales continue to drop, but sales of digital music are surging, according to data from Nielsen SoundScan. Digital music sales increased by 49 percent to 417 million.
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Apple is already selling iPod like hot cake. Now, the latest news in is that they have now sold more than 200 million songs on their iTunes digital music store!
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Paul McCartney, George Harrison  and the songs of John Lennon can all be found in the top 15 of  the U.S. pop album chart, the biggest confluence of ex-Beatles  in years.
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Album sales have continued their downward slide this year but sales of digital tracks are up almost 50 percent over this time last year.