http://tags.library.upenn.edu/tag/music+distribution PennTags Feed http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/1269 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/1269 Music Week reveals that "the number of independent music shops and chains fell sharply in 2004." Ironically, within the same year there was a 63% increase in the number of supermarkets selling music. The closing of independent and chain music stores has encouraged non-music retailers, to experiment with the selling CD's in the UK and US. In the states Walmart accounts for about one-fifth of CD's sold across the nation.