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The merry month of June isn’t starting off so hot for those who continue to hope that sales of CDs will eventually go back to the levels of the Good Old Days.  Canadian sales drop 9% from last week (already known for its degree of suckage) and are 21% lower than they were this week last year.  Overall, sales are off 14% from 2009—and remember that Michael Jackson hadn’t rescued everything by dying.

The CD charts are all about Glee now, selling another 6,849 copies for a #1 finish (although note that this is the third-lowest total to ever vault an album to the top spot this year).  Those hoping that the Second Coming of the Stone Temple Pilots would be greeted with rapturous sales had their asses smote (is that a word) as only 5,985 Canadians bothered to buy what is, in fact, a very good record.

Beyond that, I got nothing:  Bieber, GaGa (x 2!) and Antebellum.

In Amercia, it’s more Glee (62.947 copies; God, I HATE that show) followed by STP at 61,559 and the Biebster (50,319). 

For kicks, let’s look at the very bottom of the Billboard Top 200 Album chart.  How many records would one have to sell in America (pop. c. 307,006,550) to make it onto that chart?  Two thousand, three hundred and forty-four.  In Canada, Hannah Montana scraped into the charted at #200 selling just 240 copies.  Sad, innit?