Fun fact: Sales (of CD's from the previous years) declined by 4.5 percent in the United States, 9.6 percent in Canada, 9.2 percent in Germany, 8.6 percent in Italy, 9.8 percent in Austria, 14.8 percent in Denmark and 9.4 percent in Japan. Meanwhile, sales in France and the United Kingdom were up 10 percent and 5 percent, respectively.