P.O.S's Never Better debuts at #1 on today's Billboard New Artists Chart.

Red Jumpsuit Apparatus debuts at #14 on Billboard charts.

The Fray's self-titled second album will debut at #1 on the Billboard albums chart, pushing Bruce Springsteen's Working on a Dream to #2.

While overall sales might be down, it looks like Andrew Bird, Animal Collective, and Bon Iver have all broken into the top 20.

A new article on Coolfer does the math to look at just how bad the music industry is hurting.

From the Article

When consumers adopt digital music and gain the ability to purchase a few tracks instead of an album, revenues will be for the worse (as long as no more consumers become active music purchasers, which is the case here). While 73 million fewer albums were...[read more]

Lil Wayne's Tha Carter III is the top seller of 2008, selling 2.88 million copies. However, it's the first time the best selling album of the year has sold less than 3 million.

Britney Spears topped the charts this week with 505,694 albums sold.

Paramore's new DVD, The Final Riot, sold 12,166 copies in its first week.

Kanye West topped the charts this week selling 451,395 units. Taylor Swift was second, and Guns n Roses came in third with 261,191 sold.

Last week someone asked how many albums Every Avenue had sold to date - this week we have an answer: 19,691.

The Cure sold 24,091 copies of their album opening week.

The Morning Light sold 1,510 copies of their new album last week.

Plain White T's sold 15,378 copies of their new album in their first week.

TV on the Radio sold 32,299 copies of their new album in its first week.

Underoath have sold 79,673 copies of their new album to date.

The Dark Knight soundtrack sold another 20k last week bringing its total to 45k albums sold.

Total album sales are down 11 percent in the first six months of the year, though digital sales continue to grow.

Atmosphere's latest release, When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint That Shit Gold, debuted at #5 on the charts with 36,526 copies sold. It also took the No. 1 position on the Internet Albums chart.

From the Article

"What's next for us? I dunno," he says. "I guess this is where we fall the fuck off, right? Some...[read more]

Radiohead landed at #1 on the US Billboard charts with sales of around 122,000 units.

Garth Brooks has sold more albums than anyone else in the soundscan era (1991-now).

The Numbers

1 Garth Brooks (67,402,000)
2 Beatles (55,695,000)
3 Mariah Carey (49,937,000)
4 Celine Dion (49,692,000)
5 Metallica (48,670,000)
6 George Strait (39,171,000)
7 Tim McGraw (36,413,000)
8 Alan...[read more]

Music sales are down 21 percent this Christmas season.

Josh Groban's Noel has become the best selling album of 2007.

Jordin Sparks' new album sold only 119,000 copies to debut at the lowest position for any American Idol winner.

Angels & Airwaves new album I-Empire sold roughly 70k copies in its first week.

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A new report suggests that there is no correlation, positive nor negative, between file sharing and album sales.

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Say Anything sold around 25,000 copies of In Defense of the Genre last week.

Coheed and Cambria's new record, No World For Tomorrow, has debuted at #6 on the "Billboard Top 200" with roughly 60,000 records sold.

Foo Fighters' new album sold roughly 168,200 copies in its first week.

Although sales in all music categories fell roughly 5 percent last year, classical sales grew by almost 22 percent.

Congratulations to Run Doris Run, who sold approximately 13,400 copies of their EP, The Bigger Picture, through Warped Tour, which put them onto the Billboard Heatseeker charts eight times. The band will have a new LP out early next year, and will be announcing a big tour in November.