Summary: SoundScan released the U.S. music industry data

Album sales in the United States fell 9.5% in 07 from 06, with digital music sales showing a 45% growth rate of about 844 million singles, according to SoundScan. CDs, tapes, LP and other physical media sold about 500 million albums, down 15% from 06. Digital music accounts for only 13% of the 1 albums by the number single 10. The volume of ringtones has also reached 220 million.

Sales in the top three of the difference is

Josh Groban "Noel" 3.7 million

Film soundtrack "High Parochial musical" 2.9 million

The Eagles "Long M.I. out of Eden" 2.6 million

The big four record market share basically maintains the original pattern, respectively is the Universal 31.9% SONY&BMG 24.97% Warner 20.2% Hundred Generation 9.3%.

Spiralfrog gets 2 million dollars in investment

The use of Free + advertising mode of digital music services Spiralfrog, recently received 2 million U.S. dollars investment. The company currently has about 800,000 music catalogues, mainly from Universal Music Group and independent record companies. But according to the news, Spiralfrog's operation is not very optimistic. This business model still needs further market verification.

Nokia released Internet personalized music radio service last month

Nokia officially released a free personalized music radio service last month, which currently supports N82, N91, N95 series handsets, as well as built-in music radio clients in a new version of S60. This may mark the music personalized recommendation service in the mobile phone platform extension officially into the start-up phase.

Napster Upgrade subscription service price

Napster officially emailed its customers that a 30% subscription service price would be raised by the end of this month, at a new price of $12.95 a month. However, existing customers can still enjoy the original price if they renew their subscription. Since itunes and Amazon started selling DRM-free digital music, there has been a loss of membership in Napster, Rhapsody, and so on, wondering what the purpose of Napster's move is.