2009 Top Pop Songs of 2009 by Alex Cosper LADY GAGA - Poker Face TAYLOR SWIFT - You Belong With Me KE$HA - Tik Tok BLACK EYED PEAS - Boom Boom Pow BLACK EYED PEAS - I Gotta Feeling GRIZZLY BEAR - Two Weeks RIHANNA - Hard PHOENIX - 1901 TAYLOR SWIFT - Love Story PITBULL - I Know You Want Me 2009 Top Pop Hits 2009 Top Albums 2009 Top Ballads/Adult Contemporary 2009 Top Country Hits 2009 Top Dance Hits 2009 Top Modern/Alternative Hits 2009 Top R&B Hits 2009 Top Rock Hits More Top Pop Songs of 2009 KELLY CLARKSON - My Life Would Suck Without You KANYE featuring T.I. - Heartless ALL AMERICAN REJECTS - Gives You Hell JAY-Z & ALICIA KEYS - Empire State of Mind T.I. - Dead and Gone FLO RIDA - Right Round NE-YO - Mad BEYONCE - Halo AKON - Beautiful SOULJA BOY TELL EM - Kiss Me Thru the Phone SEAN KINGSTON - Fire Burning CASCADA - Evacuate the Dancefloor LADY GAGA - Paparazzi JAY-Z, RIHANNA & KANYE - Run This Town LADY GAGA - Love Game PITBULL - Hotel Room Service JEREMIH - Birthday Sex IYAZ - Replay MILEY CYRUS - Party in the USA OWL CITY - Fireflies JAMIE FOXX - Blame It JORDIN SPARKS - Battlefield JAY SEAN - Down KATY PERRY - Waking Up in Vegas LINKIN PARK - Transformers Digital Downloads Increase, CD Sales Fall in 2009 by Alex Cosper, Jan. 30, 2010 The music industry remained in limbo following a steady decade-long decline of CD album sales. A trend toward increased digital downloands and falling CD sales, continued throughout 2009, according to NPD Group. The research firm said digital downloads had risen over a two year period from 20% of all music sales to 35% by midyear. Album sales slumped further as the consumer interests appear to be shifting from albums to digital playlists in which listeners choose their own songs. Although radio continues to be the top source for discovering new music, many fans are exploring internet radio more than ever. While YouTube, Facebook, MySpace and Twitter were leading websites, which created new avenues of sharing music, he most popular internet radio portal of 2009, based on statistics from various web measurement resources such as Quantcast, is Pandora.com. The top selling album of the year was Fearless by Taylor Swift, which sold 3.2 million units throughout 2009 (article: The Best Selling Album of 2009 Is..., by Whitney Pastorek, EW.com, Jan. 6, 2010). The album also sold a few million units in 2008 and included hit songs "Love Story" and "You Belong With Me." Beatles Reappear on the charts in 2009 by Alex Cosper, Jan. 30, 2010 In September 2009 the Beatles reappeared on album charts with big sales on remastered releases such as Abbey Road (article: On the Charts: Four Decades Later, The Beatles Are Still Number One by Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, Sept. 16, 2009). The week Jay-Z's album Blueprint 3 debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 the Beatles reappeared on catalog charts with several remastered albums accounting for a combined total of 626,000 units sold after the first week of release, according to Nielsen SoundScan. The Beatles have returned to the Billboard album charts every decade since breaking up in 1970. They are the best selling recording artist of all time, and continue to sell, as they were the second best selling artist from 2000-2009 behind Eminem (article: The Top 20 Album Sellers Of The 2000s, by Paul Grein, Yahoo! Music Chart Watch, May 29, 2009). As of 2010, except for a few early recordings, most of the Beatles recordings were still unavailable at online stores such as iTunes and are mainly issued on CD. © Playlist Research. All rights reserved. |