This just in…

There were FIFTEEN albums that sold in excess of 100,000 the first week of December last year. This year there were EIGHT! And this trend has held for the last couple of weeks, approximately a fifty percent drop-off. Furthermore, four of the eight selling in excess of 100,000 WEREN’T ON A MAJOR LABEL!Sales have tanked even worse in the past few weeks than they have the rest of the year. Including digital, they’re off in the mid-teens!

Do people not want the music? Did everybody get an iPod and start STEALING the music? Is it impossible to create demand? Are things so bad that people only care about the acts of yore, like the Eagles and Garth Brooks?

***info from Bob Lefsetz***

~ by musicboxpress on December 14, 2007.