SoundScan numbers '07

[scielle]

So - 1 in 5 Canadians owns a Celine album...
But at least it's comforting to know Diana outsold Britney!



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.

TOP TEN SELLING ARTISTS OF
SOUNDSCAN ERA
(1995 - 12/30/2007)

1 Celine Dion 6,793,000
2 Shania Twain 4,207,000
3 Backstreet Boys 4,081,000
4 U2 3,343,000
5 Sarah McLachlan 2,978,000
6 Eminem 2,898,000
7 Beatles 2,862,000
8 Andrea Bocelli 2,676,000
9 Diana Krall 2,604,000
10 Britney Spears 2,484,000

http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRel ... BW20080104

[Samuel]

Even though album sales declined, Diana was well.