Digital Album Sales Soar

Representing still only about 5 percent of total album sales, digital albums sold 14.7 million units so far this year, doubling the total of 2005. Digital single sales also continued to increase, rising 77 percent to 281 million units. Unfortunately CD sales dropped 4.2 percent during the first two quarters, landing at 270.6 million units, according to figures released by Nielsen Soundscan.

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Microsoft Reveals Details About Their New Portable Music Player

Details emerged about Microsoft’s new portable digital music player yesterday when entertainment industry bigshots were briefed on the device. It’s no secret that Microsoft has been developing its own music and video player to go head to head with Apple’s iPod. A big feature disclosed was that the player would have built-in Wi-Fi, like the MusicGremlin, an advanced touch screen, and 16:9 movie format screen ratio....

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