2009 Nielsen SoundScan Report

January 06, 2010 09:08 PM Eastern Time 

2009 U.S. Music Purchases up 2.1% over 2008; Music Sales Exceed 1.5 Billion for Second Consecutive Year

2009 Overall Music Sales, Digital Track Sales, Vinyl LP Sales, Set New Plateaus

2009 Digital Music Accounts for 40% of Total U.S. Music Purchases

More than 10 Billion Music Purchases in the U.S. for the Decade

The Nielsen Company 2009 Year-End Music Industry Report

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nielsen SoundScan, the entertainment industry's data information system that tracks point-of-purchase sales of recorded music product, Nielsen BDS, the music industry’s leading music performance monitoring service, and Nielsen RingScan, which tracks mobile ringtone purchases, have announced their 2009 U.S. year-end sales and performance monitoring data for the 52-week period January 5, 2009 through January 3, 2010.

OVERALL MUSIC SALES (1/5/2009 – 1/3/2010)									OVERALL ALBUM SALES (1/5/09 – 1/3/2010)
(ALBUMS, SINGLES, MUSIC VIDEO, DIGITAL TRACKS – IN MILLIONS)									(INCLUDES ALL ALBUMS & TRACK EQUIVALENT ALBUMS - IN MILLIONS)
UNITS SOLD	2009		2008		% Chg.				UNITS SOLD	2009		2008		% Chg.
	*1,545		1,513		2.1%					489.8		535.4		- 8.5%
TOTAL ALBUM SALES (1/5/09 – 1/3/10)									INTERNET ALBUM SALES (1/5/09 – 1/3/10)
(INCLUDES CD, CS, LP, DIGITAL ALBUMS - IN MILLIONS)									(PHYSICAL ALBUM PURCHASES VIA E-COMMERCE SITES, IN MILLIONS)
UNITS SOLD	2009		2008		% Chg.				UNITS SOLD	2009		2008		% Chg.
	373.9		428.4		-12.7%					25.3		27.5		- 8.0%
DIGITAL TRACK SALES									DIGITAL ALBUM SALES
(1/5/2009 – 1/3/10 - IN MILLIONS)									(1/5/2009 – 1/3/2010 - IN MILLIONS)
UNITS SOLD	2009		2008		% CHG.				UNITS SOLD	2009		2008		% CHG.
	*1,159		1,070		8.3%					*76.4		65.8		16.1%
TOTAL LP ALBUM SALES (1/5/09 – 1/3/10)									HOLIDAY SEASON ALBUM SALES (11/9/09 – 12/27/09)
(LP/VINYL ALBUMS - IN MILLIONS)									(Physical & Digital ALBUM SALES DURING HOLIDAY SEASON: IN MILLIONS)
UNITS SOLD	2009		2008		% Chg.				UNITS SOLD	2009		2008		% Chg.
	*2.5		1.88		33.0%					80.2		80.1		0.01%
*Denotes a Nielsen SoundScan sales record

2009 GENRE ALBUM SALES REPORT (1/5/09-1/3/10 – IN THOUSANDS)												CURRENT VS. CATALOG ALBUM SALES (1/5/09-1/3/10 - IN MILLIONS)
Genre		2009		2008		% Chg.						Overall Albums		2009		2008		% Chg.
Alternative		68,195		80,919		-15.7%						Current		209.9		249.6		-15.9%
Christian/Gospel+		27,822		29,793		-6.6%						Catalog		163.9		178.8		-8.3%
Classical		12,140		13,323		-8.9%						Deep Catalog		123.4		128.9		-4.3%
Country		46,130		47,657		-3.2%
Jazz		11,779		11,791		-0.1%						Physical Albums:		2009		2008		% Chg.
Latin		16,496		25,125		-34.3%						Current		170.8		215.3		-20.7%
Metal		38,734		50,476		-23.3%						Catalog		126.6		147.3		-14.1%
New Age		2,354		2,943		-20.0%						Deep Catalog		95.9		106.2		-9.7%
R&B		69,889		77,014		-9.3%
Rap		26,441		33,410		-20.9%						Digital Albums:		2009		2008		% Chg.
Rock		124,164		139,666		-11.1%						Current		39.1		34.3		14.0%
Soundtrack		18,980		20,847		-8.9%						Catalog		37.3		31.5		18.4%
												Deep Catalog		27.5		22.7		21.1%
(Note: Titles may appear in more than one genre.)
+Sales figures tracked by Christian SoundScan

2009 YEAR-TO-DATE RECORD COMPANY MARKET SHARE (12/29/08 - 1/3/10) (reflects the market share for the entire entity including sub-distributed companies for the 53 week year)
TOTAL ALBUMS (Catalog & Current Titles)										CURRENT ALBUMS										CATALOG ALBUMS
		2009			2008							2009			2008							2009			2008
UMG		30.20	%		31.52	%				UMG		33.95	%		34.75	%				UMG		25.41	%		27.02	%
SME		28.58	%		25.30	%				SME		27.40	%		24.69	%				SME		30.10	%		26.15	%
WMG		20.55	%		21.38	%				WMG		20.05	%		20.86	%				WMG		21.19	%		22.10	%
EMI		9.20	%		8.97	%				EMI		7.83	%		7.67	%				EMI		10.94	%		10.77	%
OTHERS		11.47	%		12.83	%				OTHERS		10.77	%		12.03	%				OTHERS		12.36	%		13.95	%

DIGITAL ALBUMS													DIGITAL TRACKS
			2009				2008									2009				2008
UMG			26.92	%			27.80	%					UMG			32.99	%			31.77	%
SME			24.21	%			21.30	%					SME			24.95	%			23.54	%
WMG			22.80	%			23.48	%					WMG			20.23	%			20.87	%
EMI			9.92	%			10.91	%					EMI			7.85	%			8.36	%
OTHERS			16.14	%			16.50	%					OTHERS			13.42	%			15.35	%

2009 TOP TEN SELLING ALBUMS (12/29/2008-1/3/2010)								2009 TOP TEN SELLING ARTISTS (based on Album sales from 12/29/2008-1/3/2010)
		Title/Artist		Units Sold					Artist	Units Sold
1		Fearless/ Taylor Swift		3,217,000				1	Michael Jackson	8,286,000
2		I Dreamed A Dream/ Susan Boyle		3,104,000				2	Taylor Swift	4,643,000
3		Number Ones/ Michael Jackson		2,355,000				3	Beatles	3,282,000
4		Fame/ Lady Gaga		2,238,000				4	Susan Boyle	3,104,000
5		My Christmas/ Andrea Bocelli		2,207,000				5	Lady Gaga	2,813,000
6		Hannah Movie Sndtrk/ Hannah Montana		1,823,000				6	Andrea Bocelli	2,668,000
7		E.N.D. (Energy Never Dies)/ Black Eyed Peas		1,787,000				7	Michael Buble	2,280,000
8		Relapse/ Eminem		1,735,000				8	Eminem	2,166,000
9		Blueprint 3/ Jay-Z		1,515,000				9	Carrie Underwood	1,895,000
10.		Only By the Night/ Kings of Leon		1,398,000				10.	Black Eyed Peas	1,881,000

2009 TOP TEN SELLING DIGITAL SONGS (combines all versions of the same Song:12/29/2008-1/3/2010)							2009 TOP TEN SELLING DIGITAL ARTISTS (based on digital track sales from 12/29/2008 – 1/3/2010)
	Title/Artist		Units Sold					Artist		Units Sold
1	Boom Boom Pow/ Black Eyed Peas		4,762,000				1	Lady Gaga		15,297,000
2	I Gotta Feeling/ Black Eyed Peas		4,426,000				2	Black Eyed Peas		12,988,000
3	Poker Face/ Lady Gaga		4,381,000				3	Michael Jackson		12,355,000
4	Right Round/ Flo Rida feat. Ke$ha		4,135,000				4	Taylor Swift		12,302,000
5	Just Dance/ Lady Gaga feat. Colby O’Donis		3,200,000				5	Beyonce		9,261,000
6	Party In The U.S.A./ Miley Cyrus		3,165,000				6	Flo Rida		8,402,000
7	Down/ Jan Sean feat. Lil Wayne		3,052,000				7	Miley Cyrus		8,327,000
8	Gives You Hell/ All-American Rejects		2,880,000				8	Britney Spears		7,424,000
9	Fireflies/ Owl City		2,748,000				9	Eminem		6,283,000
10.	Whatcha Say/ Jason Derulo		2,712,000				10.	T.I.		6,277,000

2009 TOP TEN SELLING DIGITAL TRACKS (12/29/08 – 1/3/2010)										2009 TOP TEN SELLING DIGITAL ALBUMS (12/29/2008-1/3/2010)
		Title/Artist		Units Sold						Artist		Units Sold
1		Boom Boom Pow/ Black Eyed Peas		4,661,000				1		Fame/ Lady Gaga		461,000
2		I Gotta Feeling/ Black Eyed Peas		4,392,000				2		Only By the Night/ Kings Of Leon		428,000
3		Poker Face/ Lady Gaga		4,143,000				3		Soundtrack/ Twilight		350,000
4		Right Round/ Flo Rida feat. Ke$ha		4,112,000				4		Fearless/ Taylor Swift		343,000
5		Party In the U.S.A./ Miley Cyrus		3,156,000				5		E.N.D.(Energy Never Dies)/Black Eyed Peas		309,000
6		Down/ Jay Sean feat. Lil Wayne		3,019,000				6		Blueprint 3/ Jay-Z		308,000
7		Just Dance/ Lady Gaga feat. Colby O’Donis		2,965,000				7		Big Whiskey & the…/Dave Matthews Band		286,000
8		Gives You Hell/ All-American Rejects		2,869,000				8		Relapse/ Eminem		277,000
9		Fireflies/ Owl City		2,748,000				9		No Line On the Horizon/ U2		261,000
10.		Use Somebody/ Kings Of Leon		2,679,000				10		Fray/ Fray		259,000

TOP TEN ALBUMS DURING 2009 HOLIDAY SEASON (based on album sales from 11/15//2009-12/27/2009)								TOP TEN DIGITAL SONGS DURING HOLIDAY SEASON (based on digital song sales from 11/15/2009-12/27/2009)
		Title/Artist		Units Sold						Title/Artist		Units Sold
1		I Dreamed A Dream/ Susan Boyle		2,981,000				1		Tik Tok/ Ke$ha		1,634,000
2		My Christmas/ Andrea Bocelli		2,041,000				2		Bad Romance/ Lady Gaga		1,553,000
3		Fearless/ Taylor Swift		1,059,000				3		Empire State of Mind/Jay-Z & Alicia Keys		1,279,000
4		Play On/ Carrie Underwood		832,000				4		Fireflies/ Owl City		1,241,000
5		Fame/ Lady Gaga		701,000				5		Replay/ Iyaz		1,191,000
6		Element of Freedom/ Alicia Keys		697,000				6		Whatcha Say/ Jason Derulo		899,000
7		Michael Jackson This Is It/ Michael Jackson		692,000				7		Meet Me Halfway/ Black Eyed Peas		825,000
8		My World/ Justin Bieber		676,000				8		Down/ Jay Sean feat. Lil Wayne		795,000
9		Battle Studies/ John Mayer		666,000				9		Sexy Chick/ David Guetta feat. Akon		774,000
10.		Crazy Love/ Michael Buble		619,000				10		Party In The U.S.A./ Miley Cyrus		765,000

2009 TOP TEN SEASONAL ALBUMS (12/29//2008-1/3/2010)								2009 TOP TEN INTERNET ALBUMS (12/29/2008-1/3/2010)
		Title/Artist		Units Sold						Title/Artist		Units Sold
1		My Christmas/ Andrea Bocelli		2,207,000				1		I Dreamed A Dream/ Susan Boyle		405,000
2		If On A Winter’s Night/ Sting		521,000				2		My Christmas/ Andrea Bocelli		151,000
3		The Holiday Collection/ Taylor Swift		445,000				3		Fearless/ Taylor Swift		121,000
4		Noel/ Josh Groban		393,000				4		Thriller/ Michael Jackson		110,000
5		Gold and Green/ Sugarland		256,000				5		Crazy Love/ Michael Buble		106,000
6		Christmas 25th/ Mannheim Steamroller		233,000				6		Big Whiskey & the…/Dave Matthews Band		98,000
7		Christmas From the Heart/ David Archuleta		210,000				7		Beatles In Stereo/ Beatles		95,000
8		Winter Came/ Enya		201,000				8		No Line On the Horizon/ U2		79,000
9		Let It Snow EP/ Michael Buble		192,000				9		Off the Wall/ Michael Jackson		75,000
10.		Christmas Cheers/ Straight No Chaser		183,000				10.		Fame/ Lady Gaga		74,000

2009 TOP TEN VINYL ALBUMS (12/29//2008-1/3/2010)									2009 TOP TEN VINYL ARTISTS (based on vinyl album sales from 12/29/2008-1/3/2010)
		Title/Artist		Units Sold						Artist		Units Sold
1		Abbey Road/ Beatles		34,800					1	Radiohead		45,700
2		Thriller/ Michael Jackson		29,800					2	Beatles		38,800
3		Merriweather Post Pavilion/Animal Collective		14,000					3	Michael Jackson		30,400
4		Wilco/ Wilco		13,200					4	Metallica		30,200
5		Fleet Foxes/ Fleet Foxes		12,700					5	Wilco		29,600
6		Backspacer/ Pearl Jam		12,500					6	Bob Dylan		24,500
7		Veckatimest/ Grizzly Bear		11,600					7	Animal Collective		20,600
8		Appetite for Destruction/ Guns N’ Roses		11,500					8	Pearl Jam		19,900
9		Big Whiskey & the.../Dave Matthews Band		11,500					9	Bon Iver		17,100
10.		In Rainbows/ Radiohead		11,400					10.	Iron & Wine		16,600

2009 U.S. Year End Factoids

• Music purchases in 2009 reached the 1.5 Billion mark, making it the fifth consecutive year music sales have exceeded 1 billion; 1.5 billion (2008), 1.4 billion (2007), 1.2 billion (2006), and 1.01 billion (2005) .
• Music sales exceeded 62 million during week ending December 27, 2009.
• During 2009, once again more vinyl albums were purchased (2.5 million) than any other year in the history of Nielsen SoundScan (since 1991).
  • Note that similar to a year ago, two out of every three vinyl albums were purchased at an independent music store during the year.

2009 Digital Factoids:

• Digital music accounts for 40% of all music purchases in 2009; up from 32% in 2008.
• Digital track sales break the ONE BILLION sales mark for the 2^nd straight year with 1,160,000 digital track sales in 2009. The previous record was 1,070,000 digital track purchases during 2008; an increase of 8% over 2008.
• Flo Rida’s “Right Round” song set a new one week sales record with 636,000 downloads during week ending 2/15/09; marking the first time a song broke the 500,000 sales mark.
  • Ke$ha’s “Tik Tok” song registered 610,000 downloads during week ending 12/27/2009 which was the second song to break the 500,000 barrier for one week.
• Digital album sales reached an all-time high with more than 76 million sales up from 65 million in 2008; an increase of 16% over the previous year.
  • Note that digital album sales accounted for 20% of total album sales in 2009 compared to 15% in 2008, 10% in 2007 and 5.5% in 2006.
• For the December 27^th reporting week of 2009 the following digital sales records were broken:
  • Digital album sales this week set a new high with sales of 2.6 million sales; breaking the previous record of 2.4 million (12/28/08).
  • The top 200 digital songs for the week posted an all-time high with 14.3 million sales; breaking the previous record of 13.6 million during the last week of 2008.
• 2009 is the first time a digital song broke the four million sales mark in a single year. There were four songs that achieved this milestone; Black Eyed Peas’ “Boom Boom Pow” (4.8 million) and “I Got A Feeling” (4.42 million), Lady Gaga’s “Poker Face” (4.4. million) and Flo Rida’s “Right Round” (4.1 million).
• In 2009, there are 31 different digital songs with sales that exceeded two million, compared to 19 in 2008 and nine in 2007.
• 89 Digital Songs exceeded the one million sales mark for the year compared to 71 digital songs in 2008, 41 in 2007, 22 in 2006, and only two digital songs in 2005.
• Lady Gaga is the biggest selling digital artist in 2009 with more than 15 million track sales.
  • In 2008, Rihanna was the biggest selling digital artist with 9.9 million track sales.
• In 2009, four artists sold more than ten million track sales (Lady Gaga, Black Eyed Peas, Michael Jackson and Taylor Swift) marking the first time that an artist broke ten million track sales.
• There are more than 397,000 different physical albums that sold at least one copy over the Internet during 2009 compared to 450,000 in 2008 and 390,000 in 2007.

2009 Best Seller Album Factoids:

• Taylor Swift’s Fearless ends the year as the biggest selling album with just more than 3.2 million sales; just more than 100,000 than Susan Boyle’s I Dreamed a Dream (3.1 million). Susan Boyle’s I Dreamed a Dream is the best selling album released in 2009.
• Michael Jackson is the biggest selling artist for 2009 with more than 8.2 million album sales for the year.
  • Taylor Swift comes in as the second biggest selling artist for 2009 with 4.6 million album sales and the second straight year of 4 million or more album sales.
• The Beatles is the biggest selling group for 2009 with 3.3 million album sales.
• Susan Boyle’s I Dreamed a Dream is the best selling Internet album for the year with 405,000 sales as well as the biggest selling album during the “holiday season”.
• Susan Boyle’s I Dreamed a Dream album marks the first time in the history of Nielsen SoundScan that an album release by a debut artist sold more than 500,000 copies in each of its first five weeks of release.

2009 Holiday Season Factoids: (11/15/2009-12/27/2009).

• Overall album sales during the 2009 holiday season were up slightly (0.1%) over 2008, with sales of 80.2 million.
• Album sales during the holiday season accounted for 21% of all album sales for the year.

2009 Strata Factoids:

• Album sales at Non-Traditional music outlets (digital, internet, mail order, venue, non-traditional retailers) hit an all-time high in 2009 with sales reaching 110 million. Non-Traditional is the only strata that experienced album growth over the previous year; with an increase of 11% over 2008.
  • Non-traditional outlets accounted for nearly 30% of all album sales, compared to 25% in 2008, 18% in 2007, 12% in 2006, 9% in 2005 and 5% in 2004 (4% in 2003).
  • Digital album sales accounted for 70% of the Non-Traditional album sales.
• The last two weeks of the year produced the two biggest album sales weeks for Non-Traditional outlets; 3.9 and 3.4 million sales.
• In 2009, 36% of all albums purchased were at a Mass Merchant outlet; 29% at Chain outlets and 6% at Independent music stores.

Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems (Nielsen BDS), the music industry’s leading music performance monitoring service, has announced the most played songs at radio, at video, as well as Internet music streams for 2009.

Nielsen BDS: 2009 Top 10 Most Played Songs										Nielsen BDS: 2009 Top 10 Artist Airplay
		Title/Artist		Detections							Artist		Detections
1		You Belong to Me/ Taylor Swift		465,100						1	Taylor Swift		1,291,000
2		Love Story/ Taylor Swift		413,100						2	Beyonce		1,125,000
3		You Found Me/ Fray		412,900						3	Black Eyed Peas		923,000
4		Use Somebody/ Kings of Leon		383,500						4	Toby Keith		888,000
5		Boom Boom Pow/ Black Eyed Peas		379,400						5	Nickelback		864,000
6		Blame It/ Jamie Foxx feat. T-Pain		376,100						6	Pink		862,000
7		I Gotta Feeling/ Black Eyed Peas		375,100						7	Lady Gaga		859,000
8		Second Chance/ Shinedown		374,600						8	Kelly Clarkson		850,000
9		Knock You Down/ Keri Hilson feat.Kayne Wes & Ne-Yo		372,300						9	Rascal Flatts		768,000
10.		Poker Face/ Lady Gaga		370,900						10.	Tim McGraw		752,000

Nielsen BDS: 2009 Top 10 Holiday Songs Airplay											Nielsen BDS: 2009 Top 10 Artists - Internet Streams
		Title/Artist		Detections									Artist		Streams
1		Rockin’ Around the Christmas.../Brenda Lee		31,800							1		Taylor Swift		46,135,000
2		A Holy Jolly Christmas/ Burl Ives		31,200							2		Beyonce		42,962,000
3		The Christmas Song/ Nat King Cole		31,000							3		Michael Jackson		39,358,000
4		Jingle Bell Rock/ Bobby Helms		30,300							4		Nickelback		35,290,000
5		Feliz Navidad/ Jose Feliciano		29,700							5		Mariah Carey		33,696,000
6		All I Want for Christmas Is…/Mariah Carey		28,500							6		Britney Spears		32,381,000
7		It’s the Most Wonderful…/Andy Williams		26,900							7		Pink		28,925,000
8		White Christmas/ Bing Crosby		24,900							8		Lady Gaga		27,580,000
9		Happy X-Mas (War Is Over)/ John Lennon		23,800							9		Kelly Clarkson		26,204,000
10.		Wonderful Christmas Time/ Paul McCartney		21,400							10.		Ne-Yo		24,624,000

Nielsen BDS: 2009 Top 10 Internet Streamed Songs										Nielsen BDS: 2009 Top 10 Music Video Internet Streams
		Title/Artist		Streams								Title/Artist		Streams
1		You Belong to Me/ Taylor Swift		10,651,000						1		Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)/ Beyonce		3,272,000
2		You Found Me/ Fray		10,446,000						2		Love Story/ Taylor Swift		2,232,000
3		Use Somebody/ Kings of Leon		9,390,000						3		Circus/ Britney Spears		1,771,000
4		Poker Face/ Lady Gaga		9,271,000						4		Just Dance/ Lady Gaga feat.Colby O’Donis		1,667,000
5		Gives You Hell/ All-American Rejects		9,242,000						5		Poker Face/ Lady Gaga		1,621,000
6		Love Story/ Taylor Swift		9,172,000						6		Live Your Life/ T.I. feat. Rihanna		1,575,000
7		I’m Yours/ Jason Mraz		8,456,000						7		Hot N Cold/ Katy Perry		1,454,000
8		Just Dance/ Lady Gaga feat.Colby O’Donis		7,850,000						8		Heartless/ Kanye West		1,433,000
9		Halo/ Beyonce		7,840,000						9		Whatever You Like/ T.I.		1,351,000
10.		Second Chance/ Shinedown		7,557,000						10.		Womanizer/ Britney Spears		1,350,000

Nielsen BDS: Inception-to-Date Top 10 Internet Streamed Songs (based on streams captured from August 2005 – 1/3/2010)
		Title/Artist			Streams
1		Hips Don’t Lie/ Shakira feat. Wyclef Jean			85,586,000
2		Because Of You/ Kelly Clarkson			43,872,000
3		Run It!/ Chris Brown			40,993,000
4		Girlfriend/ Avril Lavigne			38,919,000
5		Irreplaceable/ Beyonce			38,192,000
6		Check On It/ Beyonce feat. Slim Thug			37,838,000
7		Buttons/ Pussycat Dolls			36,354,000
8		You’re Beautiful/ James Blunt			35,178,000
9		My Humps/ Black Eyed Peas			34,642,000
10.		Promiscuous/ Nelly Furtado feat. Timbaland			34,638,000

TOP SELLERS OF THE NIELSEN SOUNDSCAN ERA
TOP TEN SELLING ARTISTS OF SOUNDSCAN ERA (based on album sales from 1991-1/3/2010)												TOP TEN SELLING ALBUMS OF SOUNDSCAN ERA (1991 – 1/3/2010)
		Title/Artist				Units Sold								Artist			Units Sold
1		Garth Brooks				68,363,000						1		Metallica/ Metallica			15,500,000
2		Beatles				60,370,000						2		Come On Over/ Shania Twain			15,487,000
3		Mariah Carey				52,388,000						3		Jagged Little Pill/ Alanis Morissette			14,642,000
4		Metallica				52,160,000						4		Millennium/ Backstreet Boys			12,109,000
5		Celine Dion				50,933,000						5		Soundtrack/ Bodyguard			11,815,000
6		George Strait				41,843,000						6		Supernatural/ Santana			11,687,000
7		Tim McGraw				38,677,000						7		Beatles 1/ Beatles			11,564,000
8		Alan Jackson				37,447,000						8		Human Clay/ Creed			11,547,000
9		Pink Floyd				35,867,000						9		No Strings Attached/ N Sync			11,113,000
10.		Eminem				35,326,000						10.		Falling Into You/ Celine Dion			10,781,000

TOP TEN SELLING DIGITAL SONGS OF SOUNDSCAN ERA (7/4/2004-1/3/2010)									TOP TEN SELLING DIGITAL ALBUMS OF SOUNDSCAN ERA (7/4/2004 – 1/3/2010)
		Title/Artist		Units Sold							Artist		Units Sold
1		Low/ Flo Rida Feat. T-Pain		5,344,000					1		Viva La Vida/ Coldplay		761,000
2		Just Dance/ Lady Gaga feat. Colby O’Donis		4,943,000					2		Fearless/ Taylor Swift		568,000
3		I’m Yours/ Jason Mraz		4,787,000					3		Soundtrack/ Twilight		564,000
4		Boom Boom Pow/ Black Eyed Peas		4,762,000					4		Only By the Night/ Kings Of Leon		533,000
5		Poker Face/ Lady Gaga		4,551,000					5		Fame/ Lady Gaga		511,000
6		Apologize/ Timbaland feat. One Republic		4,513,000					6		Continuum/ John Mayer		442,000
7		I Gotta Feeling/ Black Eyed Peas		4,426,000					7		Daughtry/ Daughtry		387,000
8		Crank That/ Soulja Boy Tell’Em		4,370,000					8		Back To Black/ Amy Winehouse		378,000
9		Viva La Vida/ Coldplay		4,261,000					9		Sleep Through the Static/ Jack Johnson		362,000
10.		Love Story/ Taylor Swift		4,254,000					10.		In Between Dreams/ Jack Johnson		358,000

TOP TEN SELLING DIGITAL ARTISTS OF SOUNDSCAN ERA (based on digital track sales from 7/4/2004-1/3/2010)
	Artist				Units Sold
1	Taylor Swift				24,329,000
2	Rihanna				23,577,000
3	Black Eyed Peas				22,493,000
4	Kanye West				21,842,000
5	Beyonce				21,637,000
6	Nickelback				20,366,000
7	Michael Jackson				19,225,000
8	Britney Spears				18,961,000
9	Eminem				17,941,000
10.	T.I.				18,153,000

TOP SELLERS OF THE DECADE
DECADE TOP TEN SELLING ALBUMS (01/01/2000-11/01/2009) ~ SoundScan										DECADE TOP TEN SELLING ARTISTS (based on Album sales from 01/01/2000-11/01/2009) ~SoundScan
			Title/Artist		Units Sold						Artist		Units Sold
1			Beatles 1/Beatles		11,564,000					1	Eminem		32,241,000
2			No Strings Attached/N’Sync		11,113,000					2	Beatles		30,182,000
3			Come Away With Me/Norah Jones		10,579,000					3	Tim McGraw		24,769,000
4			Marshall Mathers LP/Eminem		10,216,000					4	Toby Keith		24,469,000
5			Eminem Show/Eminem		9,818,000					5	Britney Spears		22,969,000
6			Confessions/Usher		9,730,000					6	Kenny Chesney		22,034,000
7			Hybrid Theory/Linkin Park		9,697,000					7	Linkin Park		21,421,000
8			Human Clay/Creed		9,495,000					8	Nelly		21,232,000
9			Oops!...I Did It Again/Britney Spears		9,185,000					9	Creed		20,594,000
10.			Country Grammar/Nelly		8,464,000					10.	Jay-Z		20,424,000

DECADE TOP TEN MOST PLAYED SONGS (01/01/2000-11/01/2009) Station Level ~ BDS											DECADE TOP TEN MOST PLAYED ARTISTS (01/01/2000 – 11/01/2009) Station Level ~BDS
			Title/Artist			Spins						Artist		Spins
1			How You Remind Me/Nickelback			1,218,000					1	Tim McGraw		7,965,000
2			Drops Of Jupiter (Tell Me)/Train			1,141,000					2	Toby Keith		7,862,000
3			Hanging By A Moment/Lifehouse			1,104,000					3	George Strait		7,638,000
4			Breathe/Faith Hill			1,080,000					4	Alan Jackson		6,885,000
5			Kryptonite/3 Doors Down			1,062,000					5	Nickelback		6,877,000
6			The Way You Love Me/Faith Hill			1,046,000					6	Kenny Chesney		6,492,000
7			I Hope You Dance/Lee Ann Womack			1,030,000					7	Rascal Flatts		5,658,000
8			Wherever You Will Go/The Calling			996,000					8	Brooks & Dunn		5,567,000
9			Smooth/Santana Feat. Rob Thomas			985,000					9	Garth Brooks		5,519,000
10.			The Reason/Hoobastank			982,000					10.	Green Day		5,435,000

2000 – 2009 Nielsen SoundScan & Nielsen BDS Decade Factoids

• There were more than 10.4 billion music purchases over the past ten years from 2000 – 2009, according to Nielsen SoundScan.
• There were more than 6 billion album sales during the decade and more than 4.1 billion digital song downloads purchased over past six years since Nielsen SoundScan began tracking digital music sales, according to Nielsen SoundScan.
• During the past decade there were more than 5.6 billion CD albums purchased, 187 million cassette album sales, 13.8 million LP’s and 246 million digital albums downloaded, according to Nielsen SoundScan.
• Fifty-five percent of all albums purchased during the decade were CD’s, 3% were cassette’s, 4% were digital album sales and less than 1% were LP’s, according to Nielsen SoundScan.
• Eminem is the biggest selling artist for the decade with more than 32 million album sales followed by The Beatles (30.2 million), Tim McGraw (24.8 million), Toby Keith (24.5 million) and Britney Spears (22.9 million), according to Nielsen SoundScan.
• The Beatles’ Beatles 1 album was the biggest selling album for the decade with 11.6 million album sales. N’Sync’s No Strings Attached is the second biggest selling album with 11.1 album sales and Come Away with Me by Norah Jones lands at #3 with 10.6 million sales, according to Nielsen SoundScan.
• Tim McGraw is the artist who received the most airplay in the decade with more than 7.9 million spins at radio, according to Nielsen BDS.
  • Note: The top 4 most played artists on the radio for the decade were all country artists; Toby Keith, George Strait and Alan Jackson were all 2, 3 and 4 respectively.
• The Nickelback song “How You Remind Me” is the most played song at radio for the decade with more than 1.2 million spins, according to Nielsen BDS.

Nielsen RingScan has announced the Top Selling Mastertones for 2009.

Nielsen RingScan: Top 10 Mastertones (12/29/2008-1/3/2010)
			Title/Artist			Sales
1			Kiss Me Thru the Phone/Soullja Boy Tell’em			1,289,000
2			Blame It feat. T-Pain/Jamie Foxx			884,000
3			Dead and Gone feat. Justin Timberlake/T.I.			847,000
4			Day N Nite/ Kid Cudi			757,000
5			Boom Boom Pow/ Black Eyed Peas			740,000
6			All Summer Long/ Kid Rock			672,000
7			Right Round/ Flo Rida			671,000
8			Heartless/ Kanye West			653,000
9			Birthday Sex/ Jeremih			650,000
10.			Big Green Tractor/ Jason Aldean			611,000

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