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<title>US album sales up for first time since 2004, spurn SOPA</title>
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<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1201/ipodnano6-4.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[US album sales have grown for the first time in seven years, Nielsen Soundscan reported Wednesday.  A three percent increase to 458 million albums in 2011 was helped by digital sales from iTunes and other sources jumping by 20 percent, to 103 million, overcoming a six percent drop in CD sales to 225 million.  Single songs themselves grew faster, up nine percent to 1.27 billion songs....]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 04:05:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Nielsen: US album sales see first climb since 2004</title>
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<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1107/ipodnano6-4.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Nielsen SoundScan on Wednesday reported the first increase in American album sales since 2004.  Total album sales in the US for the first half of 2011 were up one percent year-to-year to hit 155.5 million.  Pure digital sales were growing faster at 660 million individual tracks, up 10 percent, and 221.5 million album equivalents, a boost of 3.6 percent....]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2011 03:20:00 GMT</pubDate>
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