pFiled under: a href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/ps3/" rel="tag"Sony PlayStation 3/a, a href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/xbox360/" rel="tag"Microsoft Xbox 360/a, a href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/business/" rel="tag"Business/a/pdiv align="center"a href="http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/xbox-360-us-sales-see-record-breaking-black-friday-weekend"img vspace="4" hspace="0" border="1" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.joystiq.com/media/2008/11/black.friday.holidaze.2008.jpg" alt="" //abr //div a href="http://www.joystiq.com/tag/black-friday"Black Friday/a, whether you view it as America's most chaotic consumer spending spree or simply as an excuse to emshove/em everyone between you and a $3 toaster, is a critical retail event for console manufacturers. a href="http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/xbox-360-us-sales-see-record-breaking-black-friday-weekend"According to Microsoft/a, the Xbox 360 enjoyed record sales during the frantic shopping period, amounting to an increase of 25% over last year. The company can't resist claiming victory in a battle that a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/12/01/black-friday-2008-wii-crowned-economy-still-down/"doesn't involve the Wii/a -- the Xbox 360 is said to have outsold the PlayStation 3 by a factor of three.br /br /Microsoft also expressed satisfaction with software sales, with emGears of War 2/em, emFable 2/em and emLips/em (yes, the karaoke game) leading the way. We'll have to wait until November's a href="http://www.joystiq.com/tag/NPD/"NPD/a results are out until we can see just how well each of those titles fared.p style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/12/02/microsoft-black-friday-xbox-360-sales-trump-ps3-3-to-1/"Microsoft: Black Friday Xbox 360 sales trump PS3 3-to-1/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.joystiq.com"Joystiq/a on Tue, 02 Dec 2008 09:15:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./pp style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"nbsp;/ppa href=http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/xbox-360-us-sales-see-record-breaking-black-friday-weekendRead/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/12/02/microsoft-black-friday-xbox-360-sales-trump-ps3-3-to-1/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.joystiq.com/forward/1388457/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/12/02/microsoft-black-friday-xbox-360-sales-trump-ps3-3-to-1/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a/p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/fu1Myh5ozf90SFjzwtcLV2rnvrY/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/fu1Myh5ozf90SFjzwtcLV2rnvrY/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?a=XMHrurxi"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?i=XMHrurxi" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?a=onsKSZqF"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?i=onsKSZqF" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/weblogsinc/joystiq/~4/vCWL-LdSuZ8" height="1" width="1"/

pUS digital music sales will grow by 17 percent per year on average over the next five years, to make up 41 percent of sales by 2013, Forrester's latest a href="http://www.jupiterresearch.com/bin/item.pl/research:vision/105/id=100799/" title="Jupiterresearch forecast"Jupiterresearch forecast/a says. But that won't stop ioverall/i sales ishrinking/i by 0.8 percent per year on average from $10.2 billion to $9.8 billion. To blame - sticking points in the digital world and an acceleration in CDs' decline, their forecast revised from a 7.1 percent annual drop to 8.7 percent following poor 2007 CD sales. Other projections... /p p -- bPhones trump media players/b: The number of MP3-capable phones will grow from today's 53 million to 240 million, or 75 percent of the US, by 2013, significantly hitting demand for unconnected media devices, which will plateau at 41 percent of the population. br / -- bSubscriptions stutter/b: So much for the great white hope. While the number of digital music consumers is forecast to grow from this year's 58.7 million to 174.1 million or $3.5 billion by 2013 (55 percent of US online users), those taking music isubscriptions/i will creep from just 2.7 million to 4.8 million. br / -- bCasual spenders/b: Per-user music spend is expected to shrink as more consumers will be phone users, reckoned to be only casual spenders. br / -- bDRM-free, so what?/b: Only 24 percent of music buyers said DRM-free would entice them to buy more digital tracks (though it's possible some are merely unaware what DRM even is). /p pstrongRelated/strong/p ul class="related" lia href="http://www.paidcontent.co.uk/entry/419-321-million-mp3-players-sold-in-the-uk-last-year-huh"32.1 Million MP3 Players Sold In The UK Last Year. Huh?/a/li lia href="http://www.paidcontent.co.uk/entry/419-pay-for-content-set-to-grow-faster-than-free-driven-by-music-forecast"Pay-For Content Set To Grow Faster Than Free, Driven By Music: Forecast/a/li /ul p!-- iMark Logic Digital Publishing Summit, Thursday November 6, Westin Times Square. Insight and perspective from Outsell, Gilbane, Simon Schuster, BusinessWeek.com, more. Evening cocktail reception. Cost is complimentary. a href="http://content.adbureau.net/accipiter/adclick/CID=000010cb0000000000000000/SITE=PC_US/AAMSZ=PREMB_NEWS/relocate=http://marklogicdps.eventbrite.com/"Register now!/a/i --/p pa href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/pcorg?a=bUOBWR"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/pcorg?i=bUOBWR" border="0"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=qhhiO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=qhhiO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=p7h1O"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=p7h1O" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=V35uo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=V35uo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=dyZGO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=dyZGO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=2hgKO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=2hgKO" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/pcorg/~4/472433097" height="1" width="1"/

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In an all-new top three on the U.K. album chart, the Killers' "Day amp; Age" (Vertigo/Universal) took the No. 1 spot ahead of Guns N' Roses' "Chinese Democracy" (Black Frog/Geffen), while Take That scored its 11th U.K. career No. 1 single with "Greatest Day" (Polydor/Universal).

In an all-new top three on the U.K. album chart, the Killers' "Day amp; Age" (Vertigo/Universal) took the No. 1 spot ahead of Guns N' Roses' "Chinese Democracy" (Black Frog/Geffen), while Take That scored its 11th U.K. career No. 1 single with "Greatest Day" (Polydor/Universal).

In an all-new top three on the U.K. album chart, the Killers' "Day amp; Age" (Vertigo/Universal) took the No. 1 spot ahead of Guns N' Roses' "Chinese Democracy" (Black Frog/Geffen), while Take That scored its 11th U.K. career No. 1 single with "Greatest Day" (Polydor/Universal).img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BillboardNews-Daily/~4/471461054" height="1" width="1"/