If you are a developing artist looking for a silver lining or the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, here it is: consumer interest in music continues to accelerate.
"Even given the declines the industry has seen, the real takeaway from 2005 is that consumers made more than 1 billion music purchasing decisions," states Rob Sisco, Nielsen Music President/Nielsen Entertainment East Coast Operations COO.
In more promising news, Billboard's Brian Garrity reports that, in the final week of 2005, millions of consumers set a record by downloading 20 million music tracks from iTunes and other retailers. Steve Jobs says Apple sold 14 million iPods in the holiday quarter and 32 million for all of 2005.
Interest in music is sure to increase as we come up on the Grammy Awards on February 8th. Consumers are bound to check out Best New Artist nominees Ciara (Goodies/Sho' Nuff-La Face, 2.5 million sold), Fall Out Boy (From Under the Cork Tree/Island, 1.7 million sold), Keane (Hopes and Fears/Polydor-Interscope, sales n/a), John Legend (Get Lifted/Columbia, 1.5 million sold), and Sugarland (Twice the Speed of Life/Mercury, 1.6 million sold).
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