24.05.12
) At 1.8 million copies sold, Greatest Selling Digital Song ("Rolling In The Deep") at 5.8 million copies sold, and Most Played Number cheaply on the Radio ("Rolling In The Deep") at 658,000 detections.
But even taking all disclaimers into account -- the slim margins, the statistics that perhaps don't stand in for real digital behaviors, a stand-out album that boosted the production -- other findings by SoundScan show a market that is finally shifting to display the advent of digital media.
Digital track sales hit a phonograph record-high 1.27 billion last year, which is 100 million downloads (8.4%) more than 2010. Digital album sales also bankrupt records at 103.1 million sales, up from 86.3 million in 2010. This is an proliferate of nearly 20%. All digital album genres, except for Soundtracks had a reassuring year in 2011. The Rap and Electronic genre had the most marked increase, at a whopping 42% increase of sales.
2011 also notably saw e-books draw level sales of physical books as well, at least those sold by Amazon.
Source: VatorNews