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Music Industry So Weak You Only Need To Sell 83,000 To Be No. 1

The top spot on this week’s Billboard album chart belongs to Chrisette Michele. Never heard of her? Neither have many other people because Michele has scored the lowest first-week sales total in Nielsen SoundScan’s 18-year history.
Her second album, Epiphany, only sold 83,000 copies in its initial week of sales. Only two other albums have debuted [...]

Amazon Sells MP3 Downloads

Amazon.com Inc launched an early version of its highly anticipated digital music download store, which is seen as a potential rival to Apple Inc’s dominant iTunes system.

Amazon’s store, named “Amazon MP3,” allows users to buy music without copy protection technology, so that the songs can play on a variety of devices including Apple’s iPod.
Most songs [...]