{"id":10217,"date":"2012-01-07T22:00:17","date_gmt":"2012-01-08T06:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/blog\/?p=10217"},"modified":"2012-01-07T22:00:17","modified_gmt":"2012-01-08T06:00:17","slug":"2011-music-sales-report-nielsen-billboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/blog\/2011-music-sales-report-nielsen-billboard\/","title":{"rendered":"2011 Music Sales Report: Album Sales Up for the First Time in 7 Years!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2011 is indeed a great year for music. Vinyl sales continue to go up, overall physical album sales declines 5%, but this is significantly less that the 19%decline in 2010. Oh yes, people. Oh yes, oh yes, oh yes. Here are the numbers made by Nielsen &amp; Billboard:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>For the first time, total music purchases reached the 1.6 Billion mark for the year.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Overall Album sales (including Albums and Track Equivalent Album sales) were up 3.2% compared to 2010.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Total Album sales were up for the first time since 2004 (1.3%) with sales totaling 330.6 million\u00a0compared to 326.2 million in 2010.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>There were 228 million physical album sales in 2011; a decline of 5% over 2010. This is\u00a0significantly less than the 19% decline in 2010.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>During 2011 there were 76,875 new albums released that sold at least one copy, that\u2019s up slightly\u00a0from 2010 when there were just over 75,000 new albums released.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Similar to a year ago, there were 11 albums that sold 1 million or more copies and 35 albums that\u00a0sold 500,000 \u2013 999,999 copies.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>While there were a number of album genres that had saw growth over the previous year, 3 smaller\u00a0genres experienced double digital growth in 2011. Jazz, New Age and Electronic grew by 26%,\u00a016% and 15% respectively.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The genre that experienced the biggest decline for 2011 was Soundtracks; down nearly 20% over\u00a02010.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>For the fourth consecutive year, more vinyl albums were purchased than any other year in the\u00a0history of Nielsen SoundScan.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>Click\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/narm.com\/PDF\/NielsenMusic2011YEUpdate.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>\u00a0to download the PDF.<\/div>\n<div>via\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.narm.com\/news\/nielsen-billboard-2011-music-industry-report\/\">NARM<\/a><\/div>\n<p>___________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p><strong>Unified Manufacturing<\/strong>\u00a0is an L.A. -based one-stop-shop that offers very affordable CD\/DVD\/USB replication, custom printing, promotional products, warehousing and fulfillment and many more. If you need an Instant Quote on a project and you want FREE SHIPPING, simply\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/instant-quote\/\">CLICK HERE<\/a>.    \t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2011 is indeed a great year for music. Vinyl sales continue to go up, overall physical album sales declines 5%, but this is significantly less that the 19%decline in 2010. Oh yes, people. Oh yes, oh yes, oh yes. 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