Bottom line: It was a down year.
It's impossible to compete on price with the loss leaders at department stores or electronic stores. You'd be crazy to do that.
The CD was supposed to be gone by now. But I suspect people are going to be buying CDs for a while yet.
The early adopters are in, ... We'll have to wait to see what it takes to make (digital downloads) a broader mass-market phenomenon.
Steve Martin exploded through 'Saturday Night Live,' ... What you have now is Comedy Central, a ready vehicle that's helping the country-hick humor on one hand and giving a guy like Dane Cook a platform on the other.
She was very prolific, especially at the point where she was getting lots of negative publicity. She needed to disappear and come back with an appealing album, and she accomplished both missions.
By injecting the digital sales into the Top 100 we immediately saw a greater variety of music, especially in the top half of the chart.
The Internet is also a helpful promotional vehicle for selling physical albums. It reinforces for people that (an artist) has something new to sell.
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