According to Billboard.biz Spain’s top selling album in 2008 was El Canto Del Loco's "Personas" (Sony Music), which moved 187,000 units. This was followed by Miguel Bosé's "Papito" (Warner), with 153,000 units sold; that set was also Spain's top-selling album of 2007. Amy Winehouse was third, with 147,000 sales of "Back To Black" (Universal). Only four other albums sold more than 100,000 units.
For ECDL and for ECDL fans, it was a ray of sunshine against a fairly bleak outlook for Spain's music market, which continued to slump in 2008, falling by 10.4% in combined physical and digital sales value to €254.4 million ($338 million). It was the eighth consecutive music sales drop... at the beginning of the decade, annual physical sales totalled more than €600 million ($796.6 million) in value. An 8.1% increase in digital sales in 2008 to €29.2 million ($38.8 million) was not enough to make up for a 12.4% fall in physical sales to €225.2 million ($299.3 million), according to figures released by labels' body Promusicae.
"The results are devastating," according to Promusicae president Antonio Guisasola. "The culture of 'everything is free' and 'zero scruples' remains alive and well in the Spanish Internet, while the authorities have still not taken any measures to protect the music sector."
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