January 8, 2009

• Taylor Swift's Fearless again holds the #1 spot on Billboard's album chart this week. A 66-percent sales drop took the album's weekly total to only 90,000 units. Eight and a half million albums were sold last week, down 6% from the same week in 2008. (Billboard.biz)

• Canada's recorded music sales are following the familiar trend: digital up, physical down even more. According to Nielsen SoundScan Canada, digital track sales increased 58% while physical sales dropped 14% (which is five points better than in the U.S.). (mediacaster)

• Twenty-two Zavvi stores have closed in the UK. (Music Week)

• A liveblog post of the CES speech by Sony CEO Sir Howard Stringer. (VentureBeat)

• Slacker Radio for Blackberry. (Boy Genius Report)

• Gracenote has teamed up with Omnifone for an unlimited music subscription service that updates the user's music collection across a range of devices -- mobile phones, PCs, car stereos, home stereos. (Press release)

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