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Thursday, January 5, 2006

Music Albums Hit 8 Year Low in 2005 Because of Downloads. Online Music Sales Grow Amid Offline Sales Decline

7:37 am | Anton Shilov

U.S. music album sales last year slid to their lowest level since 1996, squelching any hopes that the recording industry’s long downward spiral may have bottomed out, according to sales data issued on Wednesday, Reuters news agency reports.

Tracking firm Nielsen SoundScan, which measures point-of-sale purchases across the United States, said total album sales – including current and catalog titles – fell 7.2% from 2004 to 618.9 million units, the lowest since 1996, when they were 616.6 million. The industry counts CDs, cassettes, vinyl records and digital releases as “albums”.

The lackluster demand for records was conditioned by both legal and illegal downloads, rival forms of entertainment such as video games, a lack of breakout musical acts.

Nielsen SoundScan said overall music sales, which includes albums, singles, music videos and digital tracks, jumped 22.7% to just over a billion units in 2005. The rise was fueled by a 194% increase in digital downloads.

 
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Friday, July 25, 2008

9:00 am | Other AMD Denies Manufacturing Operations Spin Off Plan. AMD: Only Real Men Have Fabs

 

Thursday, July 24, 2008

11:59 pm | Other HP Set to Make Voodoo-Branded Systems Available Worldwide. HP’s Voodoo Computers to Be Available Through HP Sales Network

11:06 pm | CPU Intel Rumoured to Speed Up Nehalem Launch on Desktop. Intel’s Bloomfield Processor to Emerge in September – Rumours

 

Wednesday, July 23, 2008

9:58 pm | Storage Western Digital Releases VelociRaptor for Enterprises. WD Launches Enterprise Version of VelociRaptor

5:42 pm | Multimedia Game Developers Unlikely to Take Advantage of Improved Nintendo Wii Controller Soon. Nintendo Wii MotionPlus – A Surprise for Game Developers

4:26 pm | Memory Hynix Semiconductor to Shut Down Fab in the U.S. Hynix Semiconductor to Close its Eugene Fabrication Facility

3:35 pm | CPU AMD to Discuss Rival for Intel Atom Towards Year End. AMD’s Competitor for Intel Atom in the Works, Says Company

12:29 pm | Storage SanDisk Blames Windows Vista for Low Performance of Solid State Drives. SanDisk: Vista Is Not Optimized for Flash Memory Solid State Disk

 

Tuesday, July 22, 2008

11:55 pm | Other Tens of Companies Support Sony’s TransferJet Close Proximity Wireless Transfer Tech. Consortium Formed to Develop TransferJet Technology

11:23 pm | Mobile Sony, Toshiba, Fujitsu, NEC Seem to Get Interested in Low-Cost Notebooks. Foxconn May Manufacture Low-End Laptops for Sony – Rumours

10:55 pm | Multimedia Art Lebedev Announces Optimus Pultius Keypad. Optimus Pultius to Fight Optimus Mini Three

10:24 pm | Other AMD Chief Executive: Major Restructuring Will Spin Off Manufacturing in Months. AMD Prepares to Spin Off Manufacturing Operations

 

Monday, July 21, 2008

9:59 pm | Multimedia Sony Plans to Sell 150 Million PlayStation 3 Game Consoles. Sony Wants to Outsell PlayStation 2 with PlayStation 3

2:13 pm | Memory OCZ Technology Unveils First “Fatal1ty” Memory Modules. OCZ Announces Breed of “Fatal1ty” Memory Modules

8:46 am | CPU AMD Initiates Pilot Production of 45nm Chips. AMD to Bring 45nm Products in Early Q4 2008

 
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