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Article: US music sales recovery continues in 1st quarter: report
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- April 11, 2004
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US music sales recovery continues in 1st quarter: report
LOS ANGELES, April 10 (Xinhua) -- The recovery of US music sales
continued in the first quarter of this year, according to the Nielsen
SoundScan report released Saturday.
Overall US music sales, including CDs, legal downloads and DVDs,
rose 9.1 percent in the first three months of the year over the same
period in 2003, according to Nielsen SoundScan, which tracks sales of
music and music video products throughout the United States and
Canada.
Album sales increased 9.2 percent, and sales of CDs, which
represent 96 percent of album sales, rose 10.6 percent.
The burgeoning online music market accounted for the sale of more
than 25 ...