Singles sales are looking healthier ever since the addition of download sales to CD sales.
Digital download sales account for 38% of Sandi Thom's 'I Wish I Was A Punk Rocker', Scissor Sisters 'I Don't Feel Like Dancing' sold 49% as a digital download, Justin Timberlake's 'SexyBack' did 35% download sales last week, Nelly Furtado's 'Maneater' sold 38% of total sales as a download and Pink's 'U + UR Hand' did around 43% of sales as a download.In overall chart placement, the no. 40 physical CD sold 295 units but the no. 40 combined CD and download sold 839 units. That's 65% of the sales at no. 40 to the download vs 35% to the CD single.
The no. 100 CD single sold 63 units nationally but the combined CD and Digital Download for the no. 100 position was 180 units. Again, that is around 65% to the download.
The statistics show that while the Top 20 is doing slightly better than the download, outside of the Top 20, the physical CD single is looking fairly unhealthy.
With this being just early days with the combined CD and download chart, the future of the CD single looks very much like hovering on the point of extinction.
The CD album is fairing much better. The no. 100 album registered 544 units sold nationally this week compared to the 63 units the no. 100 single sold.
The no. 40 album did 1881 units compared to 295 sales of the physical single.
The no. 1 album sold 13151 units compared to 4554 of the no. 1 CD single.
