More Nuggets from the New Music Seminar

At the recent New Music Seminar <http://digitalmusicnews.com/stories/072110nmsstats> , Nielsen Soundscan released some grim facts about the state of the music industry. In particular, the labum format continues to shrink. Here are ssome of the key numbers about album sales in 2009:

• 98,000+ - The number of albums that sold at least 1 copy in 2009
• 81,000 - The number of albums selling less than 500 copies in 2009
• 2,058 - The number of albumes selling at least 5000 copies in 2009
• 1,319 - The number of albums selling at least 10,000 copies in 2009
• 85 - The number of albumes sellingat least 250,000 copies in 2009