pa href="http://news.yahoo.com/u-album-sales-slump-digital-rises-first-half-233804893.html"img src="http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/Drzi2sGCOBOrMCjc06L2xA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2012-07-05T233804Z_1_CBRE8641TNN00_RTROPTP_2_MUSIC-US-SALES-2012.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="Adele reacts as she holds her award for best British album of the year during the BRIT Music Awards at the O2 Arena in London" align="left" title="Adele reacts as she holds her award for best British album of the year during the BRIT Music Awards at the O2 Arena in London" border="0" //aLOS ANGELES (Reuters) - U.S. album sales for the first half of 2012 slumped after seeing growth last year, while digital track sales rose, according to music sales figures released by Nielsen SoundScan on Thursday. At mid-year 2012, album sales were down 3 percent from 2011 at 150.5 million units sold over the last six months. Digital song sales, however, notched a 6 percent rise with 698 million tracks downloaded since January. Overall music figures for physical and digital album and single sales showed a 4 percent increase, with 853.2 million sold so far in 2012. .../pbr clear="all"/
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