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In 2008, Americans purchased 297.6 million video games, according to NPD Group (as reported by Billboard.biz). Those sales had an estimated $11.7 billion retail value. The third- and fourth-best selling titles were music-based. Activision/Red Octane's "Guitar Hero World Tour" moved 3.4 million units and Harmonix/MTV/EA's "Rock Band 2" sold 1.7 million units.
Americans purchased 430 million million albums in 2008, 362 million of those CDs. Nielsen does not estimate retail value, but I'd ballpark it in the $6.1 to $6.4 billion range.
Oh, but the number of unique music purchases rose 10.5% to 1.5 billion in 2008. That's quite a salve.
Posted by Glenn at 5:01 PM
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