Album Sales Up for the First Time Since 2004
NEW YORK, Jan 05, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) — –Digital Track & Digital Album Sales Reach New Highs
–Overall Music Sales Break 1.6 Billion Mark for First Time
Nielsen SoundScan, the entertainment industry’s data information system that tracks unit point-of-purchase sales of recorded music product and Nielsen BDS, the music industry’s leading music performance monitoring service- which power many of the Billboard charts- have announced the 2011 calendar year sales and airplay monitoring data for the 52-week period January 3, 2011 through January 1, 2012.
BILLBOARD’S MOST PLAYED TITLES AND ARTISTS, BASED ON NIELSEN BDS DATA
*for the 2011 Calendar Year
Top 10 Most Played Songs
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Title/Artist Detections
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1 Rolling In The Deep/ Adele 658,000
2 Give Me Everything/ Pitbull feat Ne-yo,Afrojack 620,000
3 Party Rock Anthem/ LMFAO feat. Lauren Bennett & G 571,000
4 E.T./ Katy Perry 526,000
5 Firework/ Katy Perry 509,000
6 F**kin' Perfect/ P!nk 501,000
7 Grenade/ Bruno Mars 483,000
8 Moves Like Jagger/ Maroon 5 feat Christina Aguilera 465,000
9 Just Can't Get Enough/ Black Eyed Peas 457,000
10. Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)/ Katy Perry 450,000
Top 10 Artist Airplay
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Artist Detections
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1 Katy Perry 1,457,000
2 Bruno Mars 1,440,000
3 Lady Gaga 1,261,000
4 P!nk 1,182,000
5 Rihanna 1,127,000
6 Adele 1,118,000
7 Taylor Swift 1,094,000
8 Black Eyed Peas 955,000
9 Lady Antebellum 916,000
10. Britney Spears 900,000
Full article: marketwatch.com
P!nk has won a Grammy for “Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals” thanks to her contribution on Herbie Hancock’s cover of “Imagine”. They won the award along with Seal, India.Arie, Jeff Beck, Konono N°1, Oumou Sangare & other artists.
