Downloads overtake single sales
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Sales of song downloads overtook those for physical singles for the first time at the end of 2004.
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Britons may soon be buying more music  singles over the Internet than the counter, forcing the UK  chart into its biggest shake-up in more than 50 years of  tracking and ranking sales.
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Global online music sales rocketed in 2004, with a tenfold increase to more than 200 million paid-for downloaded tracks, a recording industry body said.
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A report on Apple iTunes by U.S.-based market consultant Forrester Research has found that the online music and video store recorded a major drop in sales.  Daily Variety said the report on more than 2,700 U.S.
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The CD will remain the most popular music format till the end of the decade, according to a new survey. The report also states that Europe will buy over Â£570m worth of digital downloads in 2009, but technology
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Apple today announced that more than two billion songs, 50 million television episodes, and over 1.3 million feature-length films have been purchased and downloaded from the iTunes Store, making it the worldâs most popular online music, TV, and movie store.
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Record labels including Universal and SonyBMG have begun selling music through a new download service.
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So far 2008 has not been a good year for music sales. This week Alicia Keys, below, stays atop the Billboard chart with âAs I Amâ (J), but the number of copies that CD sold is barely above the historic low for a No. 1 album. Nielsen SoundScan reported that 61,000 copies of the album sold last week; the least number of weekly sales for No. 1 is 60,000, set by the âDreamgirlsâ soundtrack a year ago. (The numbers are rounded.) This week the âJunoâ soundtrack (Rhino) is at No. 2 with 58,000, Mary J. Bligeâs âGrowing Painsâ (Geffen) is No. 3 with 52,000, and Radioheadâs âIn Rainbowsâ (ATO) is next with 46,000. The R&B singer Raheem DeVaughn opens at No. 5 with 45,000 sales of âLove Behind the Melodyâ (J) and John Legendâs new âLive From Philadelphia,â available only through Target, reached No. 7 with 33,000.
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Sales of MP3 players are rocketing, fuelled by falling unit prices, integration of MP3 support into a wider range of devices and the creation of legal music download websites.
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I saw an ad in yesterday's NY Times that offered the complete New Yorker magazine archive, including all the cartoons and ads, going back to 1920-something for a bit more than the hard disk would cost. The ad was from J&R, the company that makes the product is Pexagon. $149. Sounds like there might be DRM. I asked for something like this from the music business. A hundred gigs of popular music for $500, all pre-installed on the disk without DRM.  Someone at the New Yorker had this idea too? It's a good one. Bulk content for collector types. Another source of revenue. I want to run my own personal radio station, so having every song of a certain genre or from a certain period makes the diff.
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In a slow week for the Billboard chart, Alicia Keys reached No. 2 with 112,000 sales of âAs I Amâ (J); Mary J. Blige moved 89,000 of âGrowing Painsâ (Geffen) to reach No. 3; âNow Thatâs What I Call Music!â Vol. 26 is at No. 4 with 54,000; and the 18-year-old country singer Taylor Swift rose three spots to No. 5, though sales of her self-titled album, on the Big Machine label, dropped 39 percent last week to 47,000, Nielsen SoundScan reported. Radiohead reached No. 1 with the conventional release of âIn Rainbows,â through the ATO label, on CD and other formats. The indie-rock âJunoâ soundtrack (Rhino), popular online, opened at No. 8 with 38,000.
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Sales of portable MP3 digital-audio players are booming and are set to generate US&#36;58 billion in revenue worldwide by 2008, according to a new study from research firm IDC.
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EMI, home to artists such as Robbie Williams, Radiohead and Norah Jones, reported explosive growth in digital music sales yesterday and said it was winning the battle against piracy.
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The online digital-music business became a little more crowded as Richard Branson&#39;s Virgin Group launched a music Web site in the US The Virgin Digital service sells songs for 99 cents each
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Post Warner announcement trend? US HD DVD software sales slumped to just 15 per cent of the hi-def disc sales total during the week ending 13 January. Throughout 2007, HD DVD's share was closer to 35 per cent of the total.â¦
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Forrester Research alarms journalists with a report concluding that Apple has sold only 22 songs through iTunes per iPod sold. People are eating it up -- but it misses the point. iTunes isn't meant to make money -- it's a security blanket  for users and record labels.
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The recording industry reports a tenfold increase in the number of people legally downloading music from the Internet and the first significant revenues brought in by digital sales.