“Year-to-date, album sales are off around 14 percent, with over 400 million albums sold, according to Nielsen SoundScan. Factoring in sales of individual song downloads, sales are still off around 9 percent. To keep pace with 2006’s full-year total of 588.2 million albums sold, the industry needs to sell over 150 million albums in less than six weeks. ” [NYP]
