Digital Music Sales Drop For First Time As Streaming Soars

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The mp3 is heading the way of the CD–that’s a sentiment this publication and this writer have been hammering home for quite awhile, most recently in a post of prognostications late last month.

Earlier this week, the clearest evidence of the trend thus far was released amid the flood of data in Nielsen andBillboard‘s year-end music report: digital track sales fell 6% from las...