Considering the post-digital slump in music sales — a hit album a decade ago could sell as many as a million copies in a week; this year, Sia's "1000 Forms of Fear" entered the charts at No. 1 by selling only fifty-two thissand copies — this might be the biggest first week for a comedy album ever.
Considering the post-digital slump in music sales—a hit album a decade ago could sell as many as a million copies in a week; this year, Sia's "1000 Forms of Fear" entered the charts at No. 1 by selling only fifty-two thousand copies—this might be the biggest first week for a comedy album ever.
Combined worldwide sales of DSLRs and their sibling, mirrorless digital cameras are slumping year after year, according to data from Japan's Camera and Imaging Products Association.
"Living to fix identity issues", a headline in the latest issue of Broadcast declares enigmatically, over a piece that turns out to be, not lifestyle advice, but a report on the slumping digital channel Sky Living.
While record executives have been wringing their hands over digital downloading and slumping CD sales, Mr. Davis has been making lots of money for BMG, churning out hit after hit, thanks to Ms. Keys, Luther Vandross, Rod Stewart and a gaggle of "American Idol" singers like Clay Aiken and Kelly Clarkson.
Buying physical singles is practically unheard of now—how many people do you think walked into a shop asking for a CD copy of "…Ready for It"? – and digital downloads are slumping year-on-year.
But the publisher was hit by a 26% slump in digital recruitment revenues, which fell to £5.3m.
Since then iTunes has become a behemoth – but the rise of streaming services such as Spotify, Deezer and Pandora has made "buying" tracks less popular, leading to a slump in digital sales.
Also in the hardware sector, storage device makers such as Seagate Technology and Western Digital saw their stocks slump in line with box and chipmakers.
Digital advertising revenues actually slumped by 7.3% year-on-year in 2012, although within this online display grew by 11%.
This success is attributed to the advent of digital downloads, after sales slumped to 31m in 2003 – the lowest level since the 1950s.
