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Rock Band, Guitar Hero Sales Outperform Digital Music Sales in 2007

By Alex Petraglia on Monday, January 28, 2008 at 9:00 AM EST  

According to compiled NPD and Nielsen SoundScan data, sales of Guitar Hero and Rock Band brought in more revenue in 2007 than digital music downloads from services like iTunes. The two videogame franchises made their respective publishers $935 million USD combined, while digital music sales came in at about $835m.

Understandably, digital music sold many more actual units than the games: about 840m compared to 10.5m. Nonetheless, its a strong testament to the pervasiveness of this wildly-successful, emerging game genre.

(Ed. Note- Not gaming-related specifically, but CD sales still earned more than digital sales ($5.6 billion), but sold considerably fewer units (500m).

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