The Washington Post reports that digital music single sales grew by 150 percent last year, but may have resulted in fewer CD album sales in stores.
“As iPods and other MP3 players outsell CD players, sales of downloaded singles are booming accordingly,” the publication says.
“Though sales of full-length albums were down 7.2 percent last year, the digital singles market grew by 150 percent, with 352.7 million individual songs sold online, according to Nielsen SoundScan.
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