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Wired's Chris Anderson analyzes the decline in the number of hit albums (as a proportion of total music sales) over the last few decades and finds an unsurprising yet disquieting fact: The hits are getting smaller.
Here's Chris's chart which tells the story (note that 2005 figure) and his full post on the topic:
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