1.   And they discovered how many albums country music is selling.

2.   As disco taste grew focused, producers working out of basement studios and selling albums from the trunks of their cars started catering to the new niche.

3.   Avant-garde musician John Cale, co-founder of the Velvet Underground, has never sold albums in large numbers.

4.   But as of Tuesday, Tower Records in downtown Manhattan was still selling the album, as were HMV and Sam Goody.

5.   For years, Seattle singer-songwriter Laura Love made a good living touring the country by car and selling albums out of her trunk.

6.   Hollywood Records has succeeded in selling soundtrack albums, though it has struggled to break new pop-music acts.

7.   In a departure from the usual methodology of music marketing, the album was sold in the usual places, plus at Starbucks coffee shops throughout the country.

8.   It is spawning bigger stars with more mainstream appeal, selling more albums than was imaginable just a few years ago.

9.   Not exactly in the same kind of way, but did it help him sell more albums?

10.   Onstage and off, he acts like something more than a performer trying to fill arenas and sell albums.