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The last three years have each set successive records for vinyl sales in the CD era.
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Lady Gaga is the only artist in the digital era to top the 5 million sales mark with her first two hits.
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The Windows 8 launch has been seen by the company as a great success, moving Microsoft into the new touchscreen mobile era, with Steve Ballmer celebrating the sales of four million copies in just three days.
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Meanwhile, 50 years from now, someone will be comparing a film of that era to the receipts and ticket sales of Harry Potter, and so on.
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Another interesting statistic: out of all the decades from the 1940s onward, the era that got the biggest boost this year in terms of digital album sales was the 1980s.
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"21's" midway-point sales figures also mark another first in the SoundScan era -- it's the first time just one album has sold over a millioncopies in the year's first six months.
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Prior to starting Hearsay, Shih wrote a best-selling book, The Facebook Era, that helped businesses think about how to use social media for sales and marketing.
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Some of the newest high-end rental buildings were originally designed as boom-era condominiums and converted when sales were slow.
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The trend will only start to accelerate as more marketers who grew up in the Internet era push for it and specifically, tie it to key business objectives like driving incremental sales or lowering marketing costs.
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Asked to support the valuations, ERA couldn't provide such basic appraisal data as number of rooms or nearby property sales used as comparables.
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Yet vinyl continued its improbable rise (which I wrote about more extensively last year) as LP sales soared 17.7% to 4.6 million, setting a new SoundScan Era record for the fifth consecutive year.
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