Monday, August 25, 2008

IFPI 2008 Report - stats on digital downloads




The IFPI in the UK is what the RIAA is in the USA.

I found these numbers interesting and wanted to share them with you all.

    * Global digital music sales: 3 billion in 2007, an increase of 40% over 2006.  2003 income something like 200 million.
    * Digital Sales now account for 15% of the global music market (up from 11 in 2006, 0 in 2003).
    * Single track downloads: grew 53% - which is really interesting
    * 500 legitimate digital music services worldwide, offering four times the stock of music megastores. (so physical is still king in terms of sales but great strides for digital music in '07
    * 20 to 1 unlicensed tracks to legal downloads which is not surprising.

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