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At the end of the third quarter for 2008, there is some hope for the music industry. There are signs that the business is shifting, most likely to a digital future. While sales slipped 5.3% from the same point last year, the rate of decline has slowed from the 9.1% it was down at the same point in time last year. Digital sales have made up some of the ground that physical sales have lost, growing to 47.3 million sold so far at 15.9% of all album sales compared to 10.6% last year. Combined physical and digital albums sales fell 11.7% to 298 million units, slowing from the 14.2% decrease at the same time last year. More individual tracks have sold this year as well.