Thursday Business Links: Taylor Swift, Canadian SoundScan, Zavvi
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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