mlsstl;530186 Wrote: > Other music sales are not down. According to the latest RIAA statistics > (on their web site) CDs are down about 25%, but download sales are up > 27% for singles and 34% for albums. And those numbers make LP sales > look like a small ink drop on a sheet of white paper. There is a 30% down on Total Music market 2004 to 2009, according to IFPI's annual report of 2009 (http://www.ifpi.org/content/library/dmr2009.pdf) "Liquid" music (digital) is up 940% for the same period, but it doesn't catch up the physical sales drop neither in volume nor in value. ;) Piracy is the main reason, as usually...
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