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Originally posted by supaspaz
I'm sorry, but you're wrong.
In part, CD sales have declined so much because at its peak, people were updating their collections with old albums that they only had in record form. They don't need to do that anymore.
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I'm sorry, but
you are wrong. These are the
best-selling albums of 2000--all of them were new releases (the
Beatles 1 album was basically a remastered hits collection). I'm sure a fraction of total CD sales that year were from people updating their collections, but it can't be more than 10% of total album sales. If you compare the list below to 2009's top ten, you'll see why my original post still stands. P2P and iTunes killed album sales, period.
1. No Strings Attached / ‘N Sync 9,936,104
2. Marshall Mathers LP / Eminem 7,921,107
3. Oops!…I Did It Again / Britney Spears 7,893,544
4. Human Clay / Creed 6,587,834
5. Supernatural / Santana 5,857,824
6. Beatles 1 / Beatles 5,068,300
7. Country Grammar / Nelly 5,067,529
8. Black & Blue / Backstreet Boys 4,289,865
9. Dr. Dre 2001 / Dr. Dre 3,992,311
10. Writing’s On The Wall / Destiny’s Child 3,802,165