Album sales tumbled 9.5 percent in 2007
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New music industry data show the number of U.S. albums sold last year tumbled 9.5 percent from 2006, even as the number of digital tracks sold soared by 45 percent.
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Ford Motor Co. said Wednesday that US sales fell 5 percent in October from a year ago as car sales continued to decline and truck sales increased slightly.
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Music sales fell faster in 2007 than 2006 due to a sharp fall in CD sales and competition from illegal file sharing.
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A study into online music piracy suggests record sales in the US have fallen because of online piracy.
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Sales at retailers surprisingly  dropped 0.9 percent in June, the biggest decline in almost two  years, as car and gasoline sales fell, a government report  showed on Friday.
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Sales of new homes plunged by a record amount in 2007 while prices posted the weakest showing in 16 years, demonstrating the troubles builders are facing with a huge backlog of unsold homes.
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New home sales posted the biggest drop on record in 2007, according to the government's latest look at the battered housing market released Monday, as a year that saw a meltdown in the mortgage market and a drop in home values ended with yet more signs of weakness.
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( in paragraph nine group sales in North America has been  corrected to "slipped 0.5 percent to 530,630." In paragraph 10  the year has been corrected to 2009)
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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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Global sales of recorded music fell for a fourth consecutive year in 2003, according to figures released Monday by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry.
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EMI lost two of its biggest acts in  2007, is in danger of losing more, has seen record sales slump  and on Tuesday announced major layoffs.
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Business & money: Official data reveals a worse-than-expected fall in retail sales last month
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WASHINGTON -- Sales of new homes plunged by a record amount in 2007 while prices posted the weakest showing in 16 years, demonstrating the troubles builders are facing with a huge backlog of unsold homes.
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The Associated Press today reported 2007's substantial decline in the music industry's album sales, illustrating how albums are no longer the vehicle of choice for music consumption.
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Sales at Apple's online music shop  iTunes Music Store fell off a cliff in the first six months of  2006, according to a recent survey.
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A report on Apple iTunes by U.S.-based market consultant Forrester Research has found that the online music and video store recorded a major drop in sales.  Daily Variety said the report on more than 2,700 U.S.
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U.S. album sales were down 4.2 percent in the first half of the year, but sales of music downloaded online soared 77 percent, according to industry figures.