p2pnet.net News:- Big Music – the major record labels, in other words – has filed lawsuits against another 531 people in the US and launched a new attack on Canadians, bleating all the while about the money it says it’s losing to online file swapping, and how sales are down.

But February 9 through February 15 was the biggest-selling, individual week (excluding a ‘holiday season’ week, November- December) since Nielsen SoundScan started tracking point of purchase record sales in 1991, says Nielsen.

"The week of February 9-15 is the highest Valentine’s Day week since the inception of SoundScan of the Top 200 Current Album sales totaling more than 8.1 million units, which is 2 million more units sold since the last highest selling Valentine’s Day week in February 2001," it says.

Moreover:

* Year to date Overall Album sales are up 13% over last year.

* Total Album unit sales are up 25% over same week last year.

* Top 200 Current Album sales are up 37% over same week last year.

* The week of February 9-15th represents the 1st week that ‘digital track’ sales have exceeded 2 million downloads in one week (2.1 million downloads).

* Norah Jones’ Feels Like Home has the strongest debut week on The Top 200 Chart (with sales of 1,022,000) since NSync’s Celebrity debuted in July 29, 2001 (with sales of 1,879,000).

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