Some highlights from the Nielsen Soundscan report:

Overall sales are up 2.1% from 2008
Digital sales are now 40% of all purchases
Digital album sales are up 16% from 2008
Four digital songs broke the 4 million unit sales mark in 2009

Read the full report.

We’re very glad to announce that our friends at Recordunion.com have renewed their deal to use FUGA for delivering their music to many online stores. We started working with them one year ago and we have seen them grow from a one-page website into one of the most interesting digital distribution solution for individual artists [...]

We’re very pleased to welcome Dave Driessen as a new member of the FUGA team. Dave will be taking care of our customers as a Technical Account Manager, and will be based in the Amsterdam office.
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Wired Magazine’s Epicenter published an article last week on making money from musical content uploaded to YouTube. YouTube creates a fingerprint of each of your tracks. When new videos are uploaded by users, it will detect if fingerprinted music is used, and reward the content owner. This way, content owners can make money from authorized [...]

According to a study the carbon footprint of downloading an album is much smaller than buying the same album on CD.