With blogs becoming an increasingly popular way for Internet users to get information, it is interesting to see where this content is coming from and who's writing it. We thought it would be insightful to provide details about the blogosphere's composition using data gathered using our social media monitoring and analytics platform . We analyzed more than 100 million blog posts that provided information about their age, gender and location information. Age
January 7, 2010 2009 music purchases in the U.S. were up 2.1% over 2008 figures, marking the second year in a row that sales exceeded 1.5B units sold according to Nielsen SoundScan. The data covers a 52-week period from January 5, 2009 through January 3, 2010. Driving the growth was a record-breaking year for digital downloads as music fans picked up 1.16 billion digital tracks (an 8.3% jump from the prior year) and 76.4 million digital albums (up 16.1%).