Top Selling Digital Albums of 2008

Music downloads are doing much better but I still thought these numbers would have been more impressive. You be the judge. Here's a list of the top selling digital songs of 2008 according to the Nielson SoundScan:

Top Selling Digital Albums of 2008

#	Artist	Album	Albums Sold
1	Coldplay	Viva la Vida	617,000
2	Jack Johnson	Sleep Through The Static	325,000
3	Juno	Soundtrack	280,000
4	Lil Wayne	The Carter III	267,000
5	Taylor Swift	Fearless	225,000
6	Twilight	Soundtrack	214,000
7	Jason Mraz	We Sing We Dance	184,000
8	Kanye West	808'S & Heartbreak	183,000
9	Britney Spears	Circus	172,000
10	Metallica	Death Magnetic	158,000

There were a few surprises for me. I wasn't expecting 2 soundtracks in the top 10, nor seeing Metallica; the band that got Napster into a whole lot of trouble when they used to be a file sharing program. If you don't know the story, Metallica was the one that stepped up to the media going against file sharing programs, using Napster as the example, since artists weren't getting compensated for their work. People used to download the music for free illegaly and share it with everyone. It's nice to see a lot has changed since then and music download sites and services are getting more and more popular.

Since the incident and after loads of media attention, Napster built itself up to being one of the top legal music download services around now compensating the artists for music being downloaded and heard through their service.

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