Is The Music Business Finally Rebounding? New Numbers Say Yes.

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Every January, Nielsen SoundScan releases an annual report on the music business for the prior year, and every year in recent memory, the numbers have sung the same sad song: overall music sales are down, again, as piracy and other factors chip away at the industry's sales numbers.

This year, however, there's a glimmer of hope. For the first time since 2004, overall music sales are up. It's an incremental...