Digital Music Still Setting Sales Records

On last week’s Hot Digital Tracks chart (by Nielsen SoundScan), total sales top 2.6 million songs — a new weekly peak for the nascent format.

But the pace of growth has slowed. It took a little more than four months (from the end of June 2003 to the middle of November) to reach weekly sales of 1 million downloads; the run to sales of 2 million downloads in a week required just over three months (mid-November to mid-February) after the introduction of iTunes on the Microsoft Windows platform. But since breaking the 2 million-track barrier, weekly digital-track sales have been stuck between 2.1 million and 2.6 million tracks.

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