> SoundScan data released for the week ending July 23 shows fewer than 
> 9 million unit sales this week, the first time weekly sales have slipped 
> below 9 million units since 1996. Billboard's Top 200 echoes the same
> weak numbers, with all but one track failing to break 70,000 copies
> during the week. 

Just another woe-is-me newsbrief from the major label players.
If they gave us less crap, we'd give them more money.