Year's Chart-Topping Album Fails to Crack 4M Sales - NY Post, 12/27/06

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New York Post, 12/27/06
Year's Chart-Topping Album Fails to Crack 4M Sales

With only four days left in 2006, Walt Disney's "High School Musical" will have the dubious distinction of being the only best-selling album of the year to fall short of the 4 million copy mark.

The first kids' record and TV soundtrack to top the year-end album sales chart is also - with 3.6 million copies sold through Dec. 20, according to Nielsen SoundScan - the lowest-achieving chart topper since 1991.

It's been a pretty steady decline: "HSM" is the third album in the past six years to fail to crack 5 million copies. Last year Mariah Carey's "The Emancipation of Mimi" sold 4.9 million copies and five years ago Linkin Park's "Hybrid Theory" sold 4.8 million.

No best-selling album of the year has topped 8 million since 2000.

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[FrumiousBoojum]

Well, if they'd put out good music, maybe it would sell...

[disneytim]

Well, if they'd put out good music, maybe it would sell...

It's not about the quality (or lack thereof) of the music. Album sales are in a steady decline largely because of the increase of digital downloads (iTunes, Rhapsody) and file sharing. People just aren't buying albums/cd's like they used to.

[FrumiousBoojum]

It's not about the quality (or lack thereof) of the music. Album sales are in a steady decline largely because of the increase of digital downloads (iTunes, Rhapsody) and file sharing. People just aren't buying albums/cd's like they used to.

I know that...

But the general music suckage is playing a huge part of it. Or at least it is for me. I don't even think I've heard a memorable song within the last year.