The RIAA has released a tally of the decade's highest Gold and Platinum award achievements. Included in the RIAA's 2000-2009 count are the artists who received the most G&P certifications, the best selling music releases and a timeline of notable decade dates.
The decade's top certified artist is Beyonce tallying more than 64 million units. The most certified male is Michael Jackson at 49 million followed by the Eagles,the top group, at 47 million. The highest certified ringtone of the decade is Lil Wayne's "Lollipop" at 5x multi-Platinum and the most certified digital song is Flo Rida's "Low," also 5x multi-Platinum.
Congratulations to all the winners at January's 52nd annual Grammy awards show.
Beyonce broke the Grammy record for most awards taken by a female artist in one night with six. Her awards included song of the year for "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)" and best contemporary R&B album for I Am…Sasha Fierce. Taylor Swift was close behind with four wins including album of the year for Fearless and best female country vocal performance for "White Horse."
The Black Eyed Peas took home three awards, including best pop vocal album for The E.N.D. while Lady Gaga took two -- The Fame as best electronic/dance album and "Poker Face" as best dance recording. Additionally, "Use Somebody" by rockers Kings of Leon won record of the year and country act Zac Brown Band took the best new artist nod.
According to the new Digital Music Report 2010 from the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), worldwide digital music sales are on the rise. Specifically, single song download sales increased nearly 10 percent from 2008 to 2009, while digital album sales rose approximately 20 percent.
Plus, due to the dynamic partnerships between music companies and their technology partners, there are now more than 11 million legal tracks online and 400 licensed music services available worldwide, compared to less than 50 licensed music services in 2003.
Despite this progress, the report also highlights the continued harm illegal file-sharing and other forms of piracy cause to the music industry. While the music industry has increased its digital revenues by 940 percent since 2004, the online theft of music has been a major factor behind the overall global market decline of around 30 percent in the same period. Overall, global music sales in the first half of 2009 were down by 12 percent (physical and digital sales). Check out the full report here.
According to Billboard.com the top digital downloads for the week of March 6 are:
Albums:
# 1 – Soldier Of Love by Sade
# 2 – The E.N.D. by The Black Eyed Peas
# 3 – Need You Now by Lady Antebellum
Songs:
# 1 - "We Are the World 25: For Haiti" by Artists For Haiti
# 2 - "Imma Be" by the Black Eyed Peas
# 3 - "Hey, Soul Sister" by Train
* Apple's iTunes store sold its 10 billionth song in February, naming the Black Eyed Peas' "I Gotta Feeling" the music store's top selling download of all time. See the entire top 25 sold list at apple.com here.
* The Hope for Haiti Now charity album recently became the first all-digital record to top Billboard's 200 chart. While not available in physical format, fans can purchase the album online at iTunes, Rhapsody, Amazon MP3 and Napster.
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