Digital music conquers 20% market share
Posted by: Fred Mulder on 04 June 2009
IFPI publishes Digital Music Report 2009 The digital music business internationally saw a sixth year of expansion in 2008, growing by an estimated 25 per cent to US$3.7 billion in trade value. Digital platforms now account for around 20 per cent of recorded music sales, up from 15 per cent in 2007.
Posted on: 05 June 2009 by Adam Meredith
What percentage are of higher quality than CD?
Posted on: 05 June 2009 by goldfinch
The Hifi industry can't wait for HD music downloads become more popular, IMO the industry should promote it until the big companies pay attention to this market.
Nowadays digital music is dominated by portable players for the so-called ipod gen but if the difference in quality matters Hifi manufacturers might be the most interested in promoting HD music.
Posted on: 05 June 2009 by Occean
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Originally posted by Adam Meredith:
What percentage are of higher quality than CD?
I can imagine with 2 decimal place rounding, 0.00%
Which is quite depressing. I am sure only a tiny amount is actually CD quality.
Posted on: 06 June 2009 by AS332
Which is a shame because if the CD quality downloads were widely available from the main stores I'm sure I would buy a lot more music .
As it is I buy CD's and rip them to my hard drive and they hardly get played if at all after that .
