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Surprise of the Day: People Still Buying (Some) Music

in Media on February 4, 2010 at 4:48 am PT

The music industry’s decline has been so prolonged that this now qualifies as a man-bites-dog story: Sony says its music sales actually went up, just a bit, in the last quarter. Thank Michael Jackson and Susan Boyle.

Why Are Music Sales Dropping? Because It’s Hard to Buy Music

in Media on December 2, 2008 at 4:34 am PT

Americans spent billions on CDs last year. But big-box retailers are increasingly uninterested in selling the discs in their stores. Newest data point: Borders Group, which has cut its music inventory by 30 percent in the last year.