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Mariah, Best-Selling Female Artist of SoundScan Era
Nielsen SoundScan, the entertainment industry's data information system that tracks point-of-purchase sales of recorded music product, Nielsen BDS, the music industry's leading music performance monitoring service, and Nielsen RingScan, which tracks mobile ringtone purchases, have announced their 2007 U.S. year-end sales and performance monitoring data for the 52-week period January 1, 2007 through December 30, 2007. See full report here.


2007 TOP TEN SELLING ARTISTS OF SOUNDSCAN ERA
(1991-12/30/2007)

Artist - Units Sold
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 Jackson - 35,266,000
9 Pink Floyd - 34,453,000
10. Shania Twain - 33,531,000


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Album sales plunge in '07 as digital growth slows
Total album sales plunged 15 percent in 2007, and retailers waited until October for the year's top release, California tenor Josh Groban's holiday-themed "Noel," according to sales data issued on Thursday by industry tracker Nielsen SoundScan.

Overall sales -- including albums, singles, and digital tracks -- rose 14 percent to 1.4 billion units, also down from a 19 percent rise in 2006. The main driver of growth was a 45 percent jump in digital track sales to 844.2 million units. But even then, the pace slackened from 65 percent in 2006.

Groban, who records for Warner Music Group Corp (WMG.N), sold 3.7 million copies of "Noel" and topped the U.S. charts for five weeks. The No. 2 album of 2007 was Walt Disney Co's (DIS.N) soundtrack to the Disney Channel TV movie "High School Musical 2," with 3.0 million units. Its predecessor was the biggest release of 2006 with 3.7 million units.

As an indicator of how far the business has fallen, Mariah Carey topped the 2005 list, selling almost 5 million units of "The Emancipation of Mimi." The top album of 2004, R&B singer Usher's "Confessions," sold nearly 8 million copies that year.
Source: Nielsen SoundScan via Business Wire