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Music downloaders spent $790m in H1 2005

3 October 2005 11:00 by James "Dela" Delahunty | 2 comments

According to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), music downloaders spent over $790m on digital downloads in the first half of 2005. That's an increase of 259% over the same period of 2004, where $220m was spend on music downloads. Of the total figure, the music industry scooped up $440m and the retailers shared $350m, most of which would have went to Apple due to the dominance of iTunes in the music download market.

This means that during H1 2005, music download sales accounted for 6% of all record industry sales. The figure includes normal music downloads and also subscription based music rental services, but it also included ringtone sales though polyphonic and monophonic tones were not included. 44 cents of every dollar of the revenue went to the retailers, which is more than the past 33% figure that was believed to be Apple's cut.

However it wasn't all good news for the music industry which saw yet another slide of sales of music on physical media. Worldwide physical media sales fell by 6.3% to $12.4bn. Unit sales fell 6.6%. In the case of music CDs, sales were down 6.7% by value and 3.4% by units. Overall the global music market fell by 1.5% to $13.2bn compared to $13.4bn in the same period of 2004.

Source:
The Register

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Ghostdog (Senior Member) 4 October 2005 4:45
So basically they�re making a lot of money of the download services? And still they complain, and want more? [ + quote]
cell-gfx (Newbie) 6 October 2005 12:55
Exactly! And which is more expensive? Some massive plant using resources to print CDs, put them in boxes and print packaging, transportation, etc. or a single server hooked up to the net where the only cost is wear and tear of the hard drive and cost of bandwidth? No brainer really. Surely everyone's making more money by replacing a physical product with a digital one? [ + quote]