STACKING UP SALES
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Total album and single sales of CDs and cassettes for the week ended Aug. 4, compared with week-ago and year-ago levels, in millions of units sold:
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Latest week
Albums: 10.8
Singles: 2.5
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Week ago
Albums: 10.1
Singles: 2.4
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Year ago
Albums: 11.2
Singles: 2.2
Atop the Charts
Year-to-date record company market share as of July 28, based on units sold. This is an indicator of music company performance.
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MARKET SHARE Total Rank Distributor share Albums Singles album 1 WEA 22.04% 22.77% 18.51% Jagged Little Pill 2 Sony 14.52 14.87 12.83 Unplugged 3 PolyGram 13.78 13.52 14.34 The Crow: City of Angles 4 BMG 13.21 10.28 27.30 Beat Rhymes & Life 5 EMD 8.48 9.22 4.90 Electri clarryland 6 UNI 8.41 8.64 7.31 Tragic Kingdom
MARKET SHARE Top-selling Rank Artist 1 Alanis Morissette 2 Alice in Chains 3 Various 4 A Tribe Called Quest 5 Butthole Surfers 6 No Doubt
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