Digital Albums Making Impact: Digital album sales are finally making headway. Johnson shifted 375,000 copies of Sleep Through the Static (Brushfire), of which 37 percent were digital according to Digital Music News. The digital album sales total of 137,000 is a new record, according to Nielsen Soundscan.

Off The Market: Digital music wholesaler Snocap is being bought by music streaming site Imeem.

MySpace to Merge? The News Corporation chairman is in talks over merging his MySpace social networking site and other online businesses with Yahoo!

Celestial Jukebox: Rob Wells, Universal Music Group SVP of Digital said on a recent panel..”The start and endgame for Universal and, indeed, the industry worldwide, is providing consumers with blanket access through a celestial jukebox anytime, at home, in the car. This is the next step in the utopian future for music…”

The Pay What You Want Model Lingers On: Butch Walker who is an artist/producer and had 4 major label deals is set to release his new Live album “Leavin’ the Game on Luckie St.” via therecordbusinessisfucked.com which re-routes to www.butchwalker.com using the Radiohead pay what you want model. Read the full Butch rant here.

Sexy Marketing: The Bravery is the first act to release a new track each week for 4 weeks on iTunes from their upcoming album relaunch, ‘The Sun and the Moon Complete’ with a reworked version of ‘Believe’. The single is currently on the Top 10 Modern Rock single, whose video was added to MTV, MTV2, VH1, and FUSE this week, following its premiere at Yahoo.

Borders New Retail Strategy: Borders, the second largest bookstore chain is now offering a digital center where you can download music or books, burn CDs, print pictures and order leather-bound books crammed with family photos.

“Staffers will guide customers through the process of burning music to CDs, downloading songs to most digital music players (except iPods, which, for now, work only with Apple software) or books to a Sony digital reader. They’ll even print the cover art and fold it into a CD cover for you”.