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A new Nielsen study says teens prefer free, ad-supported streaming over other methods of listening to music. That finding is actually the least surprising item in a report that puts into proper context the ways teens -- and other age groups -- experience and discover music. Nielsen's "Music 360" report is the result of 3,000 online surveys into the ways people buy, discover and listen to music. There are a number of interesting findings in the report, such as that both digital formats are seen as a better value than the CD. But Nielsen highlights does a good job highlighting the most valuable aspects of study that relate to young consumers. Common knowledge holds that teens don't buy music, listen to MP3s instead of the radio and acquire all their music through illegal file sharing. Yet the average teen has more normal listening and discovery characteristics than one might expect given the hyperbole easily found in today's media. Teens are obviously more digitally adept than other age groups, but they have not entirely rid themselves of their parents' media formats.
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Album sales continue to decline slightly because of an accelerating drop in CD sales, but digital track passed the billion-unit mark for the first time in the first nine months of 2012
U.S. album sales are down 4.4% to 218.4 million units for the first nine months of the year, fueled by CD sales dropping to 129.7 million units from 151.6 million units in the corresponding period last year, according to Nielsen SoundScan. While digital album sales are up 15.3% to 85.5 million units, the 11.3 million-unit gain from last year's tally at the nine month point is only about half of the 21.9 million unit decline in CDs. Like digital, vinyl is also up dramatically -- a 16.3% increase to 3.2 million units from 2.7 million units. But it's still only about 1.5% of total U.S. album sales.
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Digital tracks sales are on the decline and the trend is accelerating.
For the year to date as of June 30, digital track sales have declined 2.3% to 682.2 million units from the 698 million units that tracks scanned in the first half of 2012, according to Nielsen SoundScan.
In the first quarter, track sales declined 1.34% to 356.5 million from the 361.3 million. In the second quarter the decline more than doubled to 3.3%, with track sales totaling 325.7 million units this year versus 336.7 million in the second quarter of 2012.
At mid-year, 51 songs had scanned more than 1 million units. Thirteen of them scanned two million units or more, led by the 5.6 million units garnered by Macklemore & Ryan Lewis’ "Thrift Shop" (featuring Wanz).
Last year, two titles accomplished the feat of scanning more than five million units -- Gotye's "Somebody That I Used To Know" (featuring Kimbra) and Fun's "We Are Young" (featuring Janelle Monae). A total of 47 titles hit the 1 million unit mark, of which 13 were more than million scans.
So far, Justin Timberlake's "The 20/20 Experience" is the best-selling album with 2.04 million scans. It is in fact, the only million-seller as Bruno Mars "Unorthodox Jukebox" -- with scans at 985,000 units -- looks like it will need another week to break the million-unit milestone. Last year, only one album had scanned more than 1 million units -- Adele's "21," which had scanned 3.7 million units.
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just realized I never shared much about my illustration thesis from last year. anyway here are some guys + stuff about them!
I’m still working on this story despite being uh… a terrible writer lol. I’ve also decided I’m going to go ahead and inflict my OCs on everyone from now on
'Glass Onion' reclama el título de la película más vista en una semana en las listas de streaming de Nielsen en Estados Unidos; 'Yellowstone' tiene su primera semana de mil millones de minutos
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'Glass Onion' reclama el título de la película más vista en una semana en las listas de streaming de Nielsen en Estados Unidos; 'Yellowstone' tiene su primera semana de mil millones de minutos
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Leslie Nielsen, portrait, sanguine, paper.