Weekly Digital sales of the most popular songs..

Train ‘Hey, Soul Sister’ (158,600)
Rihanna ‘Rude Boy’ (124,425)
Ke$ha ‘Your Love Is My Drug (123,940)
Adam Lambert ‘Whataya Want From Me’ (100,288)
Christina Augilera ‘Not Myself Tonight’ (74,136)
The Script ‘Breakeven’ (67,118)
One Republic ‘All The Right Moves’ (55,098)
Muse ‘Uprising’ (21,377)
Train ‘Drops of Jupiter’ (12,517)
Journey ‘Don’t Stop Believin’ (15,376)
Bon Jovi ‘Livin On A Prayer’ (9,994)

Consumers are still buying CD’s, but that will soon come to an end. This is what CD sales look like – listed are weekly sales and the total.

Justin Bieber ‘My World 2.0’ This week (92,129) Total (767,983)
MGMT ‘Congratulations’ This Week (66,231) Total (66,796)
Lady Antebellum ‘Need You Now’ This week (65,318) Total (1,767,686)
Usher ‘Raymon v Raymon’ This Week (63,601) Total (486,058)
Coheed and Cambria ‘Year of The Black’ This Week (51,064)
Lady Gaga ‘Fame’ This Week (31,588) Total (3,213,017)
Ke$ha ‘Animal’ This Week (31,213) Total (599,506)
Sade ‘Soldier Of Love’ This Week (24,727) Total (1,099,527)

Even though CD sales are near its death, artists still have a viable financial career, more so than ever. For instance, Ke$ha only sold 600,000 physical CD’s, but she sold over 7 Million digital singles. She will make her money via product placement, touring, publishing etc. There is a lot of money left on the table for an artist with a hit song.

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The Playdates have quickly become a Kings favorite with songs like Just Like The Movies and Days and Nights. These songs are full of hooks, but then again singer/songwriter and bassist of the band, Adam grew up listening to bands like Journey, Def Leppard and Aerosmith. This powerpop rock act may have only formed in January of 2010, but they have already hooked up with upcoming producer
Luc Tellier who has worked with bands like “Colorsound“,
“Fiction In Motion” and “The Mission District” and they’ve booked a Canadian Tour for the summer.
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Check out the track Rocketship by The Girlfriend Season. It’s smothered in auto-tune effects but this 6 piece Nevada pop rock act who sings about paparazzis and after-parties doesn’t care. They recorded their first full length album with producer Geoff Rockwell (Forever The Sickest Kids, Disco Curtis, Artist vs. Poet). Currently being offered a licensing contract from Abercrombie & Finch.
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Check out the song Something I Need by the talented Angela Wood. She made the move to Nashville to pursue a music career. In Nashville, Angela wrote with legendary country artists and writers such as Big Kenny and John Rich. Aside from music, Angela can be found on numerous national commercials including Burger King, Scope, TGI Fridays,and Payless. Contact: williams.ash@gmail.com

Check out the track Why’s It So Hard by Gabrielle Baty. She is currently writing songs with R&B artist Michael Warren (Atlantic Records, Kings of A&R). Gabrielle has over 600,000 views on YouTube. Contact: thinkcreativemm@gmail.com, danielrfriedman@mac.com