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The music industry has suffered another difficult year this 2008, as the development of techniques for legal downloading of Internet have failed to offset falling sales of CDs, according to Nielsen specialized agency.


In the U.S. sales of music on CD, vinyl and the Internet have experienced a decrease of 14% to 428.4 million units, while in 2007 sold 500.5 million. If one takes into account the sale of songs online unit, the decline is 8.5% (535.4 million against 584.9 million units), according to Nielsen.


CD sales still account for 80% of revenues in the sector, which is why the progressive lack of consumer class is a challenge because the industry has to fight piracy and at the same time to find a satisfactory way to Internet downloads are paid to do so.

In the achievements of the sales was the best selling album 'Tha Carter II' by Lil Wayne (2.87 million copies), followed by 'Viva la Vida' by Coldplay (2.14 million) and 'Fearless' , Taylor Swift (2.11 million).