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Nielsen Music 2007 Year End Music Industry Report For Canada
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Canadian Album Sales Decline 9.5% in 2007
Nielsen SoundScan Canada, the entertainment industry's data information system that tracks point-of-purchase sales of recorded music product and Nielsen BDS, the music industry’s leading music performance monitoring service, have announced their 2007 Canadian year-end sales and airplay monitoring data, for the 52-week period January 1, 2007 through December 30, 2007.
TOTAL ALBUM SALES (01/01/07 – 12/30/07)
(Includes CD, CS, LP, Digital Albums – In Millions)
Units sold 2007 2006 % Chg.
44.4 47.7 -6.9%
DIGITAL TRACK SALES OVERALL MUSIC SALES (01/01/07 – 12/30/07)
(01/01/2007 – 12/30/2007 - In Millions) (Albums,Singles, Music Video, Digital Tracks – In Millions)
Units sold 2007 2006 % Chg. Units sold 2007 2006 % Chg.
25.8 14.9 73% 70.4 64.1 9.8%
DIGITAL ALBUM SALES (represents 4.7% of total album sales) OVERALL ALBUM SALES (01/01/07 – 12/30/07)
(01/01/2007 – 12/30/2007 - In Millions) (All Albums & Track Equivalent Albums - In Millions)
Units sold 2007 2006 % Chg. Units Sold 2007 2006 % Chg.
1.98 1.02 93% 44.4 47.7 -6.9%
2007 GENRE ALBUM SALES REPORT Current vs. Catalog Album Sales
(01/01/07-12/30/07 – In Thousands) (01/01/07-12/30/07: In Millions)
Genre / 2007 / 2006 / % Chg. / Overall Albums / 2007 / 2006 / % Chg.Alternative / 7,884 / 9,851 / -19.9% / Current / 25.1 / 27.6 / -9.0%
Classical / 1,560 / 1,850 / -15.7% / Catalog / 16.7 / 18.6 / -10.2%
Country / 3,491 / 3,866 / -9.7% / Deep Catalog / 10.8 / 11.8 / -8.5%
Jazz / 1,408 / 1,577 / -10.7%
Metal / 4,497 / 5,284 / -14.9% / Physical Albums: / 2007 / 2006 / % Chg.
R&B / 3,862 / 4,028 / -4.1% / Current / 24.0 / 27.0 / -11.1%
Rap / 2,181 / 2,413 / -9.6% / Catalog / 15.8 / 18.2 / -13.1%
Deep Catalog / 10.3 / 11.5 / -10.4%
(Note: Titles may appear in more than one genre.)
Digital Albums: (000’s) / 2007 / 2006 / % Chg.
Current / 1,125 / 632 / 78.0%
Catalog / 864 / 397 / 117.6%
Deep Catalog / 526 / 257 / 104.6%
2007 YEAR-TO-DATE RECORD COMPANY MARKET SHARE (1/01/07 - 12/30/07)
(reflects the market share for the entire entity including sub-distributed companies)
TOTAL ALBUMS (Catalog & Current Titles) CURRENT ALBUMS CATALOG ALBUMS
2007 / 2006 / 2007 / 2006 / 2007 / 2006UMG / 38.17% / 35.73% / UMG / 38.85% / 36.24% / UMG / 37.14% / 34.97%
SONYBMG / 20.20% / 21.56% / SONYBMG / 19.85% / 24.37% / SONYBMG / 20.73% / 17.38%
WMG / 13.76% / 14.51% / WMG / 13.27% / 13.58% / WMG / 14.50% / 15.90%
EMI / 9.45% / 9.86% / EMI / 8.17% / 8.15% / EMI / 11.37% / 12.41%
OTHERS / 18.42% / 18.34% / OTHERS / 19.85% / 17.66% / OTHERS / 16.26% / 19.35%
2007 YEAR-TO-DATE RECORD COMPANY MARKET SHARE continued…(1/01/07 - 12/30/07)
(reflects the market share for the entire entity including sub-distributed companies)
DIGITAL ALBUMS DIGITAL TRACKS
2007 / 2006 / 2007 / 2006UMG / 33.57% / 35.05% / UMG / 34.33% / 36.04%
SONYBMG / 17.67% / 18.07% / SONYBMG / 20.65% / 21.50%
WMG / 16.00% / 16.97% / WMG / 20.64% / 18.94%
EMI / 13.14% / 12.68% / EMI / 9.19% / 9.03%
OTHERS / 19.62% / 17.24% / OTHERS / 15.18% / 14.50%
2007 Top Ten Selling Albums 2007 Top Ten Selling Artists
(01/01/2007-12/30/2007) (based on Album sales from 01/01/2007-12/30/2007)
Title/Artist / Units Sold / Artist / Units Sold1 / Noel/ Josh Groban / 380,000 / 1 / Celine Dion / 568,000
2 / Call Me Irresponsible/ Michael Buble / 304,000 / 2 / Josh Groban / 498,000
3 / Taking Chances/ Celine Dion / 301,000 / 3 / Michael Buble / 471,000
4 / Best Damn Thing/ Avril Lavigne / 279,000 / 4 / Bon Jovi / 343,000
5 / Lost Highway/ Bon Jovi / 246,000 / 5 / Avril Lavigne / 320,000
6 / Good Girl Gone Bad/ Rihanna / 232,000 / 6 / Rihanna / 267,000
7 / Duos Dubois/ Dubois Claude Et Les Plus... / 224,000 / 7 / Johnny Cash / 247,000
8 / Futuresex/Love Songs/ Justin Timberlake / 221,000 / 8 / Linkin Park / 245,000
9 / Timbaland Presents Shock Value/ Timbaland / 218,000 / 9 / Justin Timberlake / 229,000
10. / Minutes to Midnight/ Linkin Park / 195,000 / 10. / Dubois Claude Et Les Plus Gran / 224,000
2007 Top Ten Selling Digital Tracks
(01/01/2007-12/30/2007)
Title/Artist / Units Sold1 / The Way I Are/ Timbaland / 94,000
2 / Apologize/ Timbaland feat Onerepublic / 85,000
3 / Big Girls Don’t Cry/ Fergie / 83,000
4 / Stronger/ Kanye West / 80,000
5 / Paralyzer/ Finger Eleven / 79,000
6 / The Sweet Escape/ Gwen Stefani / 68,000
7 / Umbrella/ Rihanna / 66,000
8 / Don’t Stop the Music/ Rihanna / 60,000
9 / Makes Me Wonder/ Maroon 5 / 59,000
10. / Crank That/ Soulja Boy Tell’Em / 53,000
2007 Top Ten Selling Digital Songs Top Ten Selling Digital Albums
(combines all versions of the same Song: 01/01/07 – 12/30/2007) (01/01/2007-12/30/2007)
Title/Artist / Units Sold / Artist / Units Sold1 / Way I Are/ Timbaland / 98,000 / 1 / Feist/ Reminder / 17,000
2 / Stronger/ Kanye West / 94,000 / 2 / Back to Black/ Any Winehouse / 11,000
3 / Apologize/ Timbaland feat. Onerepublic / 93,000 / 3 / Timbaland Presents Shock Value/ Timbaland / 10,000
4 / Umbrella/ Rihanna / 89,000 / 4 / Neon Bible/ Arcade Fire / 9,000
5 / Big Girls Don’t Cry/ Fergie / 87,000 / 5 / Noel/ Josh Groban / 8,700
6 / Hey There Delilah/ Plain White T’s / 84,000 / 6 / Graduation/ Kanye West / 8,400
7 / Girfriend/ Avril Lavigne / 83,700 / 7 / Icky Thump/ White Stripes / 8,200
8 / Paralyzer/ Finger Eleven / 79,000 / 8 / It Won’t Be Soon Before Long/ Maroon 5 / 8,100
9 / Sweet Escape/ Gwen Stefani / 71,000 / 9 / Call Me Irresponsible/ Michael Buble / 7,700
10. / Give It To Me/ Timbaland feat. Justin Tim.. / 63,000 / 10. / Futuresex/Love Songs/ Justin Timberlake / 7,600
2007 Top Ten Selling Albums Of SoundScan Era Top Ten Selling Artists OF SOUNDSCAN ERA
(1995 – 12/30/2007) (1995 – 12/30/2007)
Title/Artist / Units Sold / Artist / Units Sold1 / Come on Over/ Shania Twain / 1,920,000 / 1 / Celine Dion / 6,793,000
2 / Let’s Talk About Love/ Celine Dion / 1,487,000 / 2 / Shania Twain / 4,207,000
3 / Big Shiny Tunes 2/ Various Artists / 1,233,000 / 3 / Backstreet Boys / 4,081,000
4 / Romanza/ Andrea Bocelli / 1,116,000 / 4 / U2 / 3,343,000
5 / Up!/ Shania Twain / 1,088,000 / 5 / Sarah McLachlan / 2,978,000
6 / Aquarium/ Aqua / 1,083,000 / 6 / Eminem / 2,898,000
7 / Millennium/ Backstreet Boys / 1,072,000 / 7 / Beatles / 2,862,000
8 / Surfacing/ Sarah McLachlan / 1,071,000 / 8 / Andrea Bocelli / 2,676,000
9 / Beatles 1/ Beatles / 1,060,000 / 9 / Diana Krall / 2,604,000
10. / Backstreet’s Back/ Backstreet Boys / 1,048,000 / 10. / Britney Spears / 2,484,000
2007 Year End Factoids:
· Overall Album sales (including Albums and Track Equivalent Album sales) declined 6.9% compared to 2006.
· Total album sales declined 9.5% compared to 2006.
· More than 25 million digital tracks were purchased; an increase of 73% over 2006.
· The top 200 tracks accounted for 18% of all track purchases; 4.7 million sales compared to 2.8 million in 2006.
· Digital album sales increased 93% from 2006 with sales of 2 million compared to 1 million in 2006 and represented 4.7% of total album sales in 2007.
· Celine Dion was the biggest selling artist with album sales surpassing 560,000 in 2007.
· 37% of all albums purchased were at a Mass Merchant/Non Traditional outlets compared to 34% in 2006 and 29% in 2005.
· Chain music stores accounted for 63% of all album sales, compared to 66% in 2006 and 71% in 2005.
· Consistent with a year ago, the top two selling artists in Canada during the SoundScan era are both native Canadians; Celine Dion (6.8 million albums sold) and Shania Twain (4.2 million albums sold).
· These same two artists continue to have the biggest selling albums for Canada in the SoundScan era; Shania Twain’s “Come On Over” album has sold 1.9 million units and Celine Dion’s “Let’s Talk about Love” album has reached 1.5 million sales.
· Consistent with the previous two years, 25% of total album sales occurred during the Holiday Season (last 6 weeks of year).
Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems (Nielsen BDS), the music industry’s leading music performance monitoring service, has announced the most played songs at radio and at video for 2007.
Nielsen BDS: Top 10 Most Played Songs Nielsen BDS: Top 10 Artist Airplay
Title/Artist / Detections / Artist / Detections1 / Paralyzer/ Finger Eleven / 44,218 / 1 / Avril Lavigne / 107,632
2 / The Sweet Escape/ Gwen Stefani feat. Akon / 41,066 / 2 / Nelly Furtado / 102,246
3 / Makes Me Wonder/ Maroon 5 / 37,383 / 3 / Nickelback / 98,960
4 / Say It Right/ Nelly Furtado / 36,852 / 4 / Justin Timberlake / 83,106
5 / Big Girls Don’t Cry/ Fergie / 36,783 / 5 / Daughtry / 82,256
6 / Before He Cheats/ Carrie Underwood / 33,602 / 6 / Bryan Adams / 77,365
7 / It’s No Over/ Daughtry / 31,540 / 7 / Maroon 5 / 75,686
8 / If Everyone Cared/ Nickelback / 31,247 / 8 / Finger Eleven / 75,357
9 / Hey There Delilah/ Plain White T’s / 31,245 / 9 / Rascal Flatts / 70,026
10. / Chasing Cars/ Snow Patrol / 29,679 / 10. / Bon Jovi / 68,775
Nielsen BDS: Top 10 Music Video Airplay
Title/Artist / Detections1 / Umbrella/ Riahanna feat. Jay-Z / 2,552
2 / Girlfriend/ Avril Lavigne / 2,544
3 / Fallen Leaves/ Billy Talent / 2,519
4 / Surrender/ Billy Talent / 2,070
5 / Big Girls Don’t Cry/ Fergie / 2,000
6 / Don’t Matter/ Akon / 1,962
7 / The Sweet Escape/ Gwen Stefani feat. Akon / 1,961
8 / Crank That/ Soulja Boy Tell’Em / 1,943
9 / Beautiful Liar/Bello Embustero/ Beyonce & Shakira / 1,894
10. / What Goes Around..Comes Around/ Justin Timberlake / 1,880