Nielsen Entertainment & Billboard's 2013 Mid - Year Music Industry Report

Nielsen Entertainment & Billboard's 2013 Mid-Year Music Industry Report came out last week - giving us some intel on the continuing decline of physical sales and rise of digital. Some stats from the report include: Total album sales (including digital, TEA & SEA): 227M (down from 235M), Digital album sales (including TEA): 113.2 million (down 15.9M), and Stream equivalent albums: 1,500 to 1 SEA, 46.9M total (up from 24.8M). Check out the full report, and read more about how growing digital sales have yet to outpace declining physical sales here.