No Idol Concerts to report. U2 made $22, 866, 542 during 3 concerts in Mexico City in May. No wonder they wanted Bono on the finale no matter he was singing.
This is the daily numbers thread. Come on in and post this BIG.
Here are some fun tid-bits from Billboard:
With this week’s sales report from Nielsen SoundScan comes news that 2011’s year-to-date album-sales total of 125.86 million as of May 29, represents 0.35% increase over the 125.42 million units scanned in the corresponding period in the prior year. That translates into 445, 000 more album-unit sales in 2011 than in 2010. How’s last week’s estimated Gaga Amazon sales total of approximately 450, 000 copies looking right about now?
The last time U.S. album sales showed an increase was in January of 2006 when, after the first three weeks of the year, album sales showed a 1.6% increase to 30.3 million units for the week ending Jan. 22, up from 29.8 million in the corresponding period of 2005. The following week of that year, when album sales were down 4.7%, year-to-date album sales fell into the red, with sales down 0.0006%.
So from late January of 2006 until this week, year-to-date sales have been consistently down, leaving industry optimists to joke that “flat is the new up, ” although at times things seemed so grim that the expression progressed to “5% down is the new up.”
Digital Album Sales To Date: 40.6M, up 19.2% (34M at this point last year which was up 14.3% from 2009)
Physical Album Sales To Date: 84M, down 7.2% (past four years, decline has been 20%)
Catalog Album Sales: up 6.2%
Moreover, in 13 of the last 15 weeks, U.S. album sales have enjoyed weekly year-over-year sales gains, after beginning the year with six straight weeks of sales decline.
That accomplishment looks even more dramatic when you consider that during the four-year period of 2007-2010, the U.S. music industry wasn’t able to muster two back-to-back weekly album-sales gains.
An interesting read!
