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Thanks to the Beatles, U.S. music sales increase for first time in years

article published on 12 May, 2011

According to the latest Nielsen figures, overall music sales in the U.S. have increased for the first time in years, mainly thanks to extremely strong sales of the Beatles digital catalog. For the YTD (year-to-date) period, sales were up 1.6 percent, with digital track sales up 9.6 percent, making up for continued declines in physical CD sales. Until the Beatles finally put their entire ... [ read the full article ]

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Mez
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_ 		13. May 2011 @ 12:59 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Go figure?
You can buy Beatles music cheaper on CD. You can get their greatest hits, more than 20 on one CD for 10 USDs. Half the price and great quality. Then I can't figure the vinyl come back either. People do what they want.

I do admire Apple's market savvy if not the company's ethics.
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Zoo_Look
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_ 		13. May 2011 @ 15:22 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I think the sentiment is shared by many... the music scene pretty much is dead and now seems to rely on back-catalogues of artists instead of "new and improved" re-hashes of their work!

When was the last original tune you heard?

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robertmro
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_ 		13. May 2011 @ 19:21 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
"When was the last original tune you heard?"

Decades ago.
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Zoo_Look
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BINGO!!
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