Posts Tagged ‘US music sales’

The Friday File: US album sales rose 3% in ’11, to 458 million; the first rise since ’04. Digital sales are why. They rose 20% (or by 20 million) to 103 million albums while CD sales fell 6% (14 million) to 225 million. The remaining 130 million albums consists of 1.3 billion single-track downloads, which…