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CNET - Digital Music, long the bane of the Music industry, may finally be something that record label executives can smile about. ... Source: au.rd.yahoo.com --- 11 hours ago
LONDON (AFP) - British Music Sales are booming as young fans increasingly buy songs online rather than illegally downloading them, the country's industry body said Wednesday. ... Source: au.rd.yahoo.com --- 35 days ago
DENVER (Billboard) - Ever since Apple's iTunes store launched in 2003, the Digital Music market has received an annual Christmas gift in the form of a Sales boost, as consumers unwrap new iPods and gift cards for the holidays. ... Source: www.msnbc.msn.com --- 35 days ago
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Digital Music, long the bane of the Music industry, may finally be something that record label executives can smile about. For 2008, total Music Sales rose 10 percent to 1.51 billion units sold, up from 1.36 billion units the year before, according to industry tracker Nielsen . Units tallied ... ... Source: www.moreover.com --- 5 days ago
Digital Music downloads reached a milestone in 2008, exceeding 1 billion songs purchased online, according to a newly released report from Nielsen SoundScan, which tracks Music Sales. That represents a 27% gain over the previous year. ... Source: www.latimes.com --- 20 days ago
Annual Sales of Digital songs will surpass 1 billion downloads this year, a first for the struggling Music industry. ... Source: www.latimes.com --- 6 days ago
More than 1 billion songs were purchased online in 2008, a 27% gain from the previous year, according to a report from Nielsen SoundScan. But CD Sales fell nearly 20% to 362.6 million. Digital Music downloads reached a milestone in 2008, exceeding 1 billion songs purchased online, according to a newly released report from Nielsen SoundScan, which tracks Music Sales. That represents a 27% gain over the previous year. ... Source: www.eweek.com --- 35 days ago
Ever since Apple's iTunes store launched in 2003, the Digital Music market has received an annual Christmas gift in the form of a Sales boost, as consumers unwrap new iPods and gift cards for the holidays. This year, though, as recession ends a year of relatively sluggish growth in Sales of Digital Music, some executives are wondering if they might get a lump of coal instead. - DENVER (Billboard) - Ever since Apple's iTunes store launched in 2003, the Digital Music market has received an annual Christmas gift in the form of a Sales boost, as consumers unwrap new iPods and gift cards for the holidays. This year, though, as recession ends a year of relatively sluggish gr... ... Source: www.webpronews.com --- 36 days ago
A new study by JupiterResearch , a Forrester Research company, predicts that Digital Music will grow from the current 18% to 41% of total Sales in 5 years. Researchers credited stores like Amazon and the transition to mp3's which make downloads portable for some of the increase. read more ... Source: www.webpronews.com --- 20 days ago
The decline in U.S. CD Sales led to a decrease in overall Music demand by 2 percent in the third quarter, according to the NPD Group. The overall drop off in Music purchases includes CDs, Digital Music downloads, and P2P file sharing sites. read more ... Source: www.variety.com --- 19 days ago
Music News: Nielsen reports 28% spike in purchases -- The 1 billion sold mark has been crossed in the Digital Music arena. ... Source: www.cdfreaks.com --- 5 days ago
Despite the growth of Digital Music Sales in 2008, the Music industry suffered as compact disc Music Sales continued a downward slide. The Nielsen SoundScan year-end figures also revealed CDs are the most profitable and common medium for all recorded Music, as it still snaps up 85 percent of... read more... ... Source: www.silicon.com --- 5 days ago
Digital Music, long the bane of the Music industry, may finally be something that record label executives can smile about. For 2008, total Music Sales rose 10 per cent to 1.51 billion units sold, up from 1.36 billion units the year before, according to industry tracker Nielsen. Units tallied include physical albums, Digital albums and tracks, and Music videos. ... Source: alwayson.goingon.com --- 5 days ago
Digital Music, long the bane of the Music industry, may finally be something that record label executives can smile about. For 2008, total Music Sales rose 10 percent to 1.51 billion units sold, up from 1.36 billion units the year before, according to industry tracker Nielsen . Units tallied include physical albums, Digital albums and tracks, and Music videos. [...] ...
Source: www.dmwmedia.com --- 36 days ago
New York - While Digital Music Sales in the U.S. are expected to grow from 18% to account for 41% of overall Music Sales in five years, this will not compensate for a decline in overall Sales, which will shrink over the next five years from $10.2 billion to $9.8 billion, according to a forecast from Forrester's JupiterResearch. read more ... Source: vocomoco.typepad.com --- 17 days ago
According to a new report from NPD, which calls video games "an important source for Music discovery," consumer demand for Music dropped 2 percent in the third quarter of 2008 and the industry suffered an overall decline in purchased CDs,... ... Find more results for Digital Music Sales on RSSMicro.com |
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Reuters - Ever since Apple's iTunes store launched in 2003, the Digital Music market has received an annual Christmas gift in the form of a Sales boost, as consumers unwrap new iPods and gift cards for the holidays. ...
Despite much doomsaying by analysts and trade groups, Music Sales are actually up by 10% as of the end of 2008. According to a report from Nielsen SoundScan, Sales are up, but much of this growth can be attributed to vinyl and Digital Sales. The report notes that more than 1.5 billion songs were sold digitally in 2008, a 10% bump over 2007. However, vinyl Sales were up by 89% over the previous year. That is a relatively small number (1.88 million) but not all retailers participate in SoundScan. While it's impossible to say, many of the smaller or independent retailers will not be reporting to SoundScan. Those retailers are often more likely to specialize in vinyl so it is difficult to be sure how much of those Sales come from vinyl. The only bad news came for physical CDs which were down 14% from 2007. ...
Over the last few years, the reporting of revenue from commercial Music Sales has been a "good news, bad new" deal. Digital downloads of albums and songs keep rising. CD Sales keep falling. Since Sales of CDs are more profitable than Digital business, the sum of these parts undermines the Music industry's ability to stay financially viable According to The Wall Street Journal, CD Sales dropped "from to 360.6 million in 2008, from 449.2 million a year earlier," a 20% plunge. Including Digital downloads, album Sales only fell only 14%. Both numbers are bad enough to continue to destroy the value of Music content companies like Warner Music. Its shares trade at $3, down from almost $24 two years ago. The movement of Music consumption from CDs to devices like the Apple (AAPL) iPod will never be the industry's core problem. Even Warner could negotiate better royalty deals with its Digital download partners, that would not save the company. The typical consumer of Music in the US, and most other countries, will cheat artists and Music labels until they are bled out. Piracy is still such a tremendous problem that it cannot be overcome by restructuring fees inside the Music business. The real enemy is the lack of ethics among potential customers who appear to think they have a God-given right to access of free albums and songs. The irony of the industry's problem is that, once it has lost too much money to be viable, consumers will begin t ...