Following news that digital sales of music in the US were leading overall growth in the industry in 2008, it turns out that digital sales are booming in the UK as well, with sales of legal music downloads up 33% over 2007. Digital album sales also soared in 2008.
And there's icing on the cake in the UK too: high street retailers are also seeing growth in music sales, meaning that there's room--and demand--in the UK market for a range of content types.
That's good news for the music industry and good news for consumers.
And there's icing on the cake in the UK too: high street retailers are also seeing growth in music sales, meaning that there's room--and demand--in the UK market for a range of content types.
That's good news for the music industry and good news for consumers.
That is good news. Of course, IFPI this week said that despite the growth of legal downloads, 95% of music downloads are unauthorized, meaning songwriters and performing artists aren't being paid for them. That's not good.