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As music lovers create their own mixes, the album is being redefined
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Maryland Gazette
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April 14, 2007
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Album sales are in a seven-year decline as the computer has
replaced the brick-and-mortar store as the gateway to record
shopping. But don't count the long-playing album out. Its meaning has
only changed in this iTunes age.
Music fans are popping onto their PCs to buy their favorite songs,
and that has sent sales of singles skyrocketing, to the tune of a 65
percent sales spike in 2006, according to the music tracking service
Nielsen SoundScan. The phenomenon may seem novel, a byproduct of the
Internet revolution, yet the single has ruled before, just as it
rules now.
The album still hasn't spun into irrelevance - at least the album
concept hasn't. Sales of digital albums were up more than ...
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