Nielsen’s Mid-Year Report Reveals Demise Of The Digital Download

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Nielsen SoundScan and Nielsen BDS released the annual Mid-Year Music Industry Report for 2014 late last week, and the results revealed the acceleration a trend this publication haslongbeen predicting: the demise of the digital download.

According to the report, digital track sales dipped from 682.2 million in the first half of 2013 to 593.6 million in this year’s first six months, a 13% drop. Overall album sales sa...