billboard.com - 12/31/2008
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Rapper Lil Wayne's "Tha Carter III" (Cash Money/Universal) is far and away the top seller of 2008, netting 2.88 million copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan. However, it's the first time the best selling album of the year has sold less than 3 million since Nielsen SoundScan began tracking ...
idolator.com - 1/5/2009
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idolator.com —
Nielsen SoundScan has released its year-end numbers for
music sales, and perhaps unsurprisingly, they aren't all that
great—no albums cracked the three-million-sold mark this year, with Lil Wayne's Tha Carter III almost getting there (2.874 ...
Lil Wayne, Taylor Swift Do Their Part To Save The Music ...
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AC/DC, METALLICA Among Best-Selling Albums Of 2008
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Billboard.com reports that AC/DC and METALLICA 's latest releases were among the Top 10 best-selling albums of 2008. According to Nielsen SoundScan , AC/DC 's Wal-Mart -exclusive release, "Black Ice" ( Columbia ), sold 1.92 million copies to rank No. 5 for the year. It was also held back from digital retailers. METALLICA 's "Death Magnetic" ( Warner Bros. ) came in at No. 7 with 1.57 million In 2008, there were 428.4 million albums sold, down 14.4% compared to 2007's 500.5 million. Digital downloads of albums accounted for 65.79 million albums this year, or 15.4% of ...
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... Lil’ Wayne’s Tha Carter III was 2008’s highest selling album of the year with 2.88 million records sold. ...
Buzz News Roundup, 12/31
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... today, Time Warner Cable subscribers will lose Viacom channels (MTV, Comedy Central, etc.) just after midnight tonight. — Variety
Fox is looking to delay the release of Watchmen. — Reuters
Funny Games star Michael Pitt has been cast in Martin Scorsese's HBO pilot, Boardwalk Empire. — The Hollywood Reporter
Duffy topped the British album charts in 2008 with Rockferry. — Reuters
Meanwhile, Lil Wayne finished atop the US year-end charts. — Billboard ...
Top Sellers Down From 07
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Top Sellers Down From 07 For the first time since Michael Jordan beat the Lakers for the NBA title, the hottest selling album of the year failed to move three million units. The honor, if you can call it that, for 2008 went out to Lil Wayne whos new disc Tha Carter III sold just shy of two million nine hundred thousand copies. Im sure hell still take it. According to Billboard , the rest of the top ten was littered throughout different genres with mainstays AC/DC and Metallica fighting for a place alongside Coldplay, Beyonce, and Jack Johnson. In total, four hundred and ...
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allhiphop.com 1/5/2009 — Hip-Hop artists were responsible for the top three highest selling mastertones in 2008, accounting for nearly thirteen percent of the top 100 mastertones sold last year, the Nielsen Company's RingScan report says.
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Billboard.com 12/31/2008
Rapper Lil Wayne's "Tha Carter III" (Cash Money/Universal) is far and away the top seller of 2008, netting 2.88 million copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan. However, it's the first time the best selling album of the year has sold less than 3 ...
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