Nielsen Music 2007 Year End Music Industry Report For Canada

Canadian Album Sales Decline 9.5% in 2007
TORONTO--(Business Wire)--Nielsen SoundScan Canada, the entertainment industry's data
information system that tracks point-of-purchase sales of recorded
music product, and Nielsen BDS, the music industry's leading music
performance monitoring service, have announced their 2007 Canadian
year-end sales and airplay monitoring data, for the 52-week period
January 1, 2007 through December 30, 2007.

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TOTAL ALBUM SALES (01/01/07 - 12/30/07)
(INCLUDES CD, CS, LP, DIGITAL ALBUMS - IN MILLIONS)
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UNITS SOLD 2007 2006 % Chg.
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41.8 47.7 -6.9%
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DIGITAL TRACK SALES
(01/01/2007 - 12/30/2007 - IN MILLIONS)
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UNITS SOLD 2007 2006 % Chg.
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25.8 14.9 73%
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DIGITAL ALBUM SALES (represents 4.7% of total album sales)
(01/01/2007 - 12/30/2007 - IN MILLIONS)
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UNITS SOLD 2007 2006 % CHG.
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1.98 1.02 93%
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OVERALL MUSIC SALES (01/01/07 - 12/30/07)
(ALBUMS,SINGLES, MUSIC VIDEO, DIGITAL TRACKS -
IN MILLIONS)
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UNITS SOLD 2007 2006 % Chg.
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70.4 64.1 9.8%
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OVERALL ALBUM SALES (01/01/07 - 12/30/07)
(ALL ALBUMS & TRACK EQUIVALENT ALBUMS - IN
MILLIONS)
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UNITS SOLD 2007 2006 % CHG.
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44.4 47.7 -6.9%
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2007 GENRE ALBUM SALES REPORT CURRENT VS. CATALOG ALBUM
(01/01/07-12/30/07 - IN THOUSANDS) SALES
(01/01/07-12/30/07: IN
MILLIONS)
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Overall
Genre 2007 2006 % Chg. Albums 2007 2006 % Chg.
------------ ------- ------- --------- ---------- ----- ---- ------
Alternative 7,884 9,851 -19.9% Current 25.1 27.6 -9.0%
Classical 1,560 1,850 -15.7% Catalog 16.7 18.6 -10.2%
Country Deep
3,491 3,866 -9.7% Catalog 10.8 11.8 -8.5%
Jazz 1,408 1,577 -10.7%
Metal Physical
4,497 5,284 -14.9% Albums: 2007 2006 % Chg.
---------- ----- ---- ------
R&B 3,862 4,028 -4.1% Current 24.0 27.0 -11.1%
Rap 2,181 2,413 -9.6% Catalog 15.8 18.2 -13.1%
Deep
Catalog 10.3 11.5 -10.4%
(Note: Titles may appear in more than
one genre.)
Digital
Albums:
(000's) 2007 2006 % Chg.
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Current 1,125 632 78.0%
Catalog 864 397 117.6%
Deep
Catalog 526 257 104.6%
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2007 YEAR-TO-DATE RECORD COMPANY MARKET SHARE (1/01/07 - 12/30/07)
(reflects the market share for the entire entity including sub-
distributed companies)

TOTAL ALBUMS (Catalog & CURRENT ALBUMS CATALOG ALBUMS
Current Titles)
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2007 2006 2007 2006 2007 2006
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UMG 38.17% 35.73% UMG 38.85% 36.24% UMG 37.14% 34.97%
SONYBMG 20.20% 21.56% SONYBMG 19.85% 24.37% SONYBMG 20.73% 17.38%
WMG 13.76% 14.51% WMG 13.27% 13.58% WMG 14.50% 15.90%
EMI 9.45% 9.86% EMI 8.17% 8.15% EMI 11.37% 12.41%
OTHERS 18.42% 18.34% OTHERS 19.85% 17.66% OTHERS 16.26% 19.35%
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2007 YEAR-TO-DATE RECORD COMPANY MARKET SHARE continued...(1/01/07 -
12/30/07)
(reflects the market share for the entire entity including sub-
distributed companies)

DIGITAL ALBUMS DIGITAL TRACKS
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2007 2006 2007 2006
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UMG 33.57% 35.05% UMG 34.33% 36.04%
SONYBMG 17.67% 18.07% SONYBMG 20.65% 21.50%
WMG 16.00% 16.97% WMG 20.64% 18.94%
EMI 13.14% 12.68% EMI 9.19% 9.03%
OTHERS 19.62% 17.24% OTHERS 15.18% 14.50%
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2007 TOP TEN SELLING ALBUMS 2007 TOP TEN SELLING
ARTISTS
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(01/01/2007-12/30/2007) (based on Album sales
from 01/01/2007-
12/30/2007)

Title/Artist Units Sold Artist Units
Sold
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1 Noel/ Josh Groban 380,000 1 Celine Dion 568,000
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2 Call Me Irresponsible/ 304,000 2 Josh Groban 498,000
Michael Buble
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3 Taking Chances/ Celine Dion 301,000 3 Michael Buble 471,000
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4 Best Damn Thing/ Avril 279,000 4 Bon Jovi 343,000
Lavigne
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5 Lost Highway/ Bon Jovi 246,000 5 Avril Lavigne 320,000
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6 Good Girl Gone Bad/ Rihanna 232,000 6 Rihanna 267,000
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7 Duos Dubois/ Dubois Claude 224,000 7 Johnny Cash 247,000
Et Les Plus...
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8 FutureSex/LoveSounds/ 221,000 8 Linkin Park 245,000
Justin Timberlake
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9 Timbaland Presents Shock 218,000 9 Justin 229,000
Value/ Timbaland Timberlake
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10. Minutes to Midnight/ Linkin 195,000 10. Dubois Claude 224,000
Park Et Les Plus
Gran
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2007 TOP TEN SELLING DIGITAL TRACKS
(01/01/2007-12/30/2007)
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Title/Artist Units Sold
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1 The Way I Are/ Timbaland 94,000
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2 Apologize/ Timbaland feat OneRepublic 85,000
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3 Big Girls Don't Cry/ Fergie 83,000
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4 Stronger/ Kanye West 80,000
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5 Paralyzer/ Finger Eleven 79,000
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6 The Sweet Escape/ Gwen Stefani 68,000
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7 Umbrella/ Rihanna 66,000
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8 Don't Stop the Music/ Rihanna 60,000
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9 Makes Me Wonder/ Maroon 5 59,000
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10. Crank That/ Soulja Boy Tell'Em 53,000
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2007 TOP TEN SELLING DIGITAL SONGS TOP TEN SELLING DIGITAL
ALBUMS
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(combines all versions of the same (01/01/2007-12/30/2007)
Song: 01/01/07 - 12/30/2007)

Title/Artist Units Artist Units
Sold Sold
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1 Way I Are/ Timbaland 98,000 1 Feist/ Reminder 17,000
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2 Stronger/ Kanye West 94,000 2 Back to Black/ Amy 11,000
Winehouse
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3 Apologize/ Timbaland 93,000 3 Timbaland Presents 10,000
feat. OneRepublic Shock Value/
Timbaland
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4 Umbrella/ Rihanna 89,000 4 Neon Bible/ Arcade 9,000
Fire
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5 Big Girls Don't Cry/ 87,000 5 Noel/ Josh Groban 8,700
Fergie
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6 Hey There Delilah/ 84,000 6 Graduation/ Kanye 8,400
Plain White T's West
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7 Girlfriend/ Avril 83,700 7 Icky Thump/ White 8,200
Lavigne Stripes
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8 Paralyzer/ Finger 79,000 8 It Won't Be Soon 8,100
Eleven Before Long/ Maroon
5
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9 Sweet Escape/ Gwen 71,000 9 Call Me 7,700
Stefani Irresponsible/
Michael Buble
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10. Give It To Me/ 63,000 10. FutureSex/LoveSounds/ 7,600
Timbaland feat. Justin Justin Timberlake
Tim...
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2007 TOP TEN SELLING ALBUMS TOP TEN SELLING ARTISTS OF
OF SOUNDSCAN ERA SOUNDSCAN ERA
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(1995 - 12/30/2007) (1995 - 12/30/2007)

Title/Artist Units Artist Units
Sold Sold
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Come on Over/ 1,920,000 1 Celine Dion 6,793,000
1 Shania Twain
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Let's Talk About 1,487,000 2 Shania Twain 4,207,000
2 Love/ Celine Dion
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Big Shiny Tunes 2/ 1,233,000 3 Backstreet Boys 4,081,000
3 Various Artists
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Romanza/ Andrea 1,116,000 4 U2 3,343,000
4 Bocelli
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5 Up!/ Shania Twain 1,088,000 5 Sarah McLachlan 2,978,000
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6 Aquarium/ Aqua 1,083,000 6 Eminem 2,898,000
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Millennium/ 1,072,000 7 Beatles 2,862,000
7 Backstreet Boys
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Surfacing/ Sarah 1,071,000 8 Andrea Bocelli 2,676,000
8 McLachlan
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9 Beatles 1/ Beatles 1,060,000 9 Diana Krall 2,604,000
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Backstreet's Back/ 1,048,000 10. Britney Spears 2,484,000
10. Backstreet Boys
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2007 Year End Factoids:

-- Overall Album sales (including Albums and Track Equivalent
Album sales) declined 6.9% compared to 2006.

-- Total album sales declined 9.5% compared to 2006.

-- More than 25 million digital tracks were purchased; an
increase of 73% over 2006.

-- The top 200 tracks accounted for 18% of all track purchases;
4.7 million sales compared to 2.8 million in 2006.

-- Digital album sales increased 93% from 2006 with sales of 2
million compared to 1 million in 2006 and represented 4.7% of
total album sales in 2007.

-- Celine Dion was the biggest selling artist with album sales
surpassing 560,000 in 2007.

-- 37% of all albums purchased were at a Mass Merchant/Non
Traditional outlets compared to 34% in 2006 and 29% in 2005.

-- Chain music stores accounted for 63% of all album sales,
compared to 66% in 2006 and 71% in 2005.

-- Consistent with a year ago, the top two selling artists in
Canada during the SoundScan era are both native Canadians;
Celine Dion (6.8 million albums sold) and Shania Twain (4.2
million albums sold).

-- These same two artists continue to have the biggest selling
albums for Canada in the SoundScan era; Shania Twain's "Come
On Over" album has sold 1.9 million units and Celine Dion's
"Let's Talk about Love" album has reached 1.5 million sales.

-- Consistent with the previous two years, 25% of total album
sales occurred during the Holiday Season (last 6 weeks of
year).

Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems (Nielsen BDS), the music industry's
leading music performance monitoring service, has announced the most
played songs at radio and at video for 2007.

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Nielsen BDS: Nielsen BDS:
Top 10 Most Played Songs Top 10 Artist Airplay
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Title/Artist Detections Artist Detections
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1 Paralyzer/ Finger 44,218 1 Avril Lavigne 107,632
Eleven
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2 The Sweet Escape/ 41,066 2 Nelly Furtado 102,246
Gwen Stefani feat.
Akon
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3 Makes Me Wonder/ 37,383 3 Nickelback 98,960
Maroon 5
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4 Say It Right/ Nelly 36,852 4 Justin 83,106
Furtado Timberlake
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5 Big Girls Don't Cry/ 36,783 5 Daughtry 82,256
Fergie
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6 Before He Cheats/ 33,602 6 Bryan Adams 77,365
Carrie Underwood
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7 It's Not Over/ 31,540 7 Maroon 5 75,686
Daughtry
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8 If Everyone Cared/ 31,247 8 Finger Eleven 75,357
Nickelback
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9 Hey There Delilah/ 31,245 9 Rascal Flatts 70,026
Plain White T's
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10. Chasing Cars/ Snow 29,679 10. Bon Jovi 68,775
Patrol
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Nielsen BDS: Top 10 Music Video Airplay
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Title/Artist Detections
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1 Umbrella/ Rihanna feat. Jay-Z 2,552
2 Girlfriend/ Avril Lavigne 2,544
3 Fallen Leaves/ Billy Talent 2,519
4 Surrender/ Billy Talent 2,070
5 Big Girls Don't Cry/ Fergie 2,000
6 Don't Matter/ Akon 1,962
7 The Sweet Escape/ Gwen Stefani feat. Akon 1,961
8 Crank That/ Soulja Boy Tell'Em 1,943
9 Beautiful Liar/Bello Embustero/ Beyonce & Shakira 1,894
10. What Goes Around..Comes Around/ Justin Timberlake 1,880
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