Album sales plummet, downloads way up
Sat, January 3
Music sales continued to slump in 2008 as the rising number of downloads of digital tracks failed to make up for a plunge in compact-disc sales.
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Hitting the road to . . . wherever
Sat, January 3
Kanye West did it this year. So did Usher.
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A-listers' discs set to drop
Sat, January 3
"Nothing changes on New Year's Day," Bono once claimed. Maybe not. But a week later? That's another story. On Tuesday, the first CDs of 2009 begin arriving in stores. And soon we'll be wading through a veritable blizzard of new tunes by everyone from U2 and Jay-Z to A.C. Newman and Kelly Clarkson. (But not Guns N' Roses -- for the first time in all the years we've been doing this, we don't have Axl Rose to kick around anymore.)
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