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Other fascinating factoids:
-Percentage of total digital sales is up 6.7%, from last year’s eight-month mark of 21.5% to 28.2% this year.
-Indies’ share of the marketplace rises from 18.7% in 2005 to 19.5% to the same point this year, up .8%.
-Madacy remains the larg- est pure indie with a new release album share of (1.3%), followed by Koch Records (.7%) and Victory Records (.6%).
-If EMI and WMG had joined forces, they would have a combined total marketshare of 25.1%, which would put them ahead of Sony BMG’s 24% by 1.1%.
-Disney has the two top-selling albums of the year to date in High School Musical (3.0m) and Lyric Street’s Rascal Flatts (2.4m).
-Atlantic has two in the Top 10 in James Blunt (#3, 1.8m) and rapper T.I. (#9, 1.4m).
-The rest of the Top 10 includes Arista’s Carrie Underwood (#4, 1.7m), Geffen’s Mary J. Blige (#5, 1.6m), Columbia’s Dixie Chicks (#6, 1.5m), UMe’s Now 21 (#7, 1.5m), Roadrunner/IDJ’s Nickelback (#8, 1.4m) and Warner Bros.’ Red Hot Chili Peppers (#10, 1.3m).
-In all, UMG has five albums in the Top 10 year-to-date (including two from Disney), WMG has three and Sony BMG two.
-EMI’s best-selling album is Capitol Nashville’s Keith Urban at #33.
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