Digital Album and Song Sales Drop in 2014, Song Streaming Takes Off Digital song sales are down 12 percent from 2013, and digital album sale are down nine percent. The total number of songs played on ...

All throughout 2014, there were clues that the year was shaping up to be a historically bad one for the music industry. Statistics company Nielsen Music, which tracks album and song sales and streams, ...

Apple's acquisition of streaming service Beats Music looms large over the latest music sales data, showing once again that the industry is trending away from sales of digital songs and albums. Nielsen ...