Susan Boyle, Top Seller, Shakes Up CD Trends
Submitted by John on Thu, 12/03/2009 - 07:40.
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For most of Susan Boyle’s fans, buying her new album last week meant getting a shrink-wrapped CD, not a download.
Ms. Boyle’s album, “I Dreamed a Dream” (Syco/Columbia), sold 701,000 copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan, the biggest opening-week sales for any album this year, eclipsing superstars like Eminem and U2, and the best for a debut artist since Snoop Dogg’s “Doggystyle” in 1993.
Only 6 percent of the sales for “I Dreamed a Dream” were digital downloads, far below the industry’s overall ratio of physical to digital sales. As recently as three years ago CDs — which are more profitable for record labels than downloads are — accounted for 94 percent of the market. But by the middle of this year that share had slipped to about 77 percent. The previous week’s No. 1 release, John Mayer’s “Battle Studies” (Columbia), sold a notable 45 percent of its opening-week 286,000 copies digitally.
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Re: Susan Boyle, Top Seller, Shakes Up CD Trends
I just want to thank GOD for blessing all of us with the glorious voice of this beautiful woman. I play her music and I just melt and have a completely change of demeanor and have the CD with me ALL the time.
Thank you Susan and God Bless your MUM for having her tell you to continue with your gift of voice from God, to share with us all.
So sincerely,
Mary V
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