As someone who hates about 95%+ of the current music scene, I can't help but take vindictive satisfaction in this. All these so-called "It"-girls can only have popular microwavable singles, but can't sell albums to save their careers. Blaming it on technology only goes so far; the bottom line is that few people have enough faith in a Katy Perry or Rihanna to make buying their whole album a priority, so they just download singles, then forget where they stored the mp3 file...and that's about it.

I hate to sound old, but "in my day" artists actually sold millions. Historically, many adults have felt like the music of their youth was better than today's generation. I'm no different, and in the meantime I actually have the sales statistics to back it up. "In my day," a hit album didn't stall at 800k-1.5 million. When I was coming up, my faves were going 5,6,7,8,9,10x platinum. Heh.

Glad I was a 90's teen, and thrilled I wasn't a 90's baby.