‘Last year digital singles outsold plastic CDs for the first time. So far this year, sales of digital songs have risen 54 percent, to roughly 189 million units, according to data from Nielsen SoundScan. Digital album sales are rising at a slightly faster pace, but buyers of digital music are purchasing singles over albums by a margin of 19-1. Because of this shift in listener preferences, record labels are coming to grips with the loss of the album as their main product and chief moneymaker.”