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2000 – 2009 The Decade in Music Factoids

· There were more than 10.4 billion music purchases over the past ten years from 2000 – 2009.

· There were more than 6 billion album sales during the decade and more than 4.1 billion digital song downloads purchased over past six years since Nielsen SoundScan began tracking digital music sales.

· During the past decade there were more than 5.6 billion CD albums purchased, 187 million cassette album sales, 13.8 million LP’s and 246 million digital albums downloaded.

· Fifty-five percent of all albums purchased during the decade were CD’s, 3% were cassette’s, 4% were digital album sales and less than 1% were LP’s.

· Eminem is the biggest selling artist for the decade with more than 32 million album sales followed by The Beatles (30.2 million), Tim McGraw (24.8 million), Toby Keith (24.5 million) and Britney Spears (22.9 million).

· The Beatles’ Beatles 1 album was the biggest selling album for the decade with 11.6 million album sales. N’Sync’s No Strings Attached is the second biggest selling album with 11.1 album sales and Come Away with Me by Norah Jones lands at #3 with 10.6 million sales.

· Tim McGraw is the artist who received the most airplay in the decade with more than 7.9 million spins at radio.

· The Nickelback song “How You Remind Me” is the most played song at radio for the decade with more than 1.2 million spins, according to Nielsen BDS.