Summary of data that understands worldwide music CD sales and the current state of digital sales

ByZivpu

What is going on about the music industry of the whole world, the actual problem, what is the sales of CD? Is digital sales going well? GrabStats.com has released a summary of various data that you are interested in.

Music Industry Statistics, Industry Figures, and Information - GrabStats.com

Firstly from the trend of the world music industry. The unit of figures in the table is 100 million yen.

(Billions of yen)

"Total sales of the music industry" is the total income earned by record companies, music publishers, musicians, orchestras, composers, concert venues and entertainment companies, packages such as CDs, online and mobile digital It includes music, music publication, and income from live concerts. In this way, sales have continued to increase over the past six years.

"Record industry" refers to sales of packages and sales of digital music. The figure is close to flat. On the other hand, publications are gradually growing.

It is the one that saw the same figure as above only in North America. The trend is the same as the whole world, the impression that only numerical values ​​are scaled down.

(Billions of yen)

Here is a comparison of sales of physical package (CD, LP, cassette) and digital data in the American music industry as numbers of different sources.

(Billions of yen)

The fact that the 2003 digital data is "0" is not "0 dollars" but "0 billion dollars (it did not reach 100 million dollars)". It is expected to be reversed in 2012, as it is in an inverse relationship. By the way, it is said that in 2015 sales of digital music will exceed 1.5 trillion yen.

Music data sales of digital data are growing worldwide, and in 2008 a single song in the world was downloaded about 1.4 billion times. Breakdown by North America is 1.1 billion times, France is 145 million times, Japan is 140 million times, Britain 110 million times, Germany is 37.4 million times. By the way, replacing North America with the United States, these five countries are the top five in the world digital market, with 39% in the USA, 19% in Japan, 16% in the UK, 12% in France and 9% in Germany.

And here is the top 10 songs most downloaded in the world in 2008. Two Japanese artists are ranked in and it is realized that Japan is at the top in the digital music market.

1st place: Little Wayne "Lollipop9.1 Million Times


2nd place: Aoyama Thelma feat.SoulJa "You will be by your side."8.2 million times


3rd place: Flo Rida feat. T-Pain "Low"8 million times


4th place: Leona Lewis "Bleeding Love7.7 million times


5th place: Timbaland feat One Republic "Apologize6.2 million times


6th place: GReeeeN "Kiseki6.2 million times


7th place: Katy Perry "I Kissed a Girl5.7 million times


8th place: Alicia Keys "No One"5.6 million times


9th place: Usher feat. Young Jeezy "Love In This Club"5.6 million times


10th place: Chris Brown "With You"5.5 million times


Although I see the tone of "I can not sell CDs due to movie sites and file sharing software", but when I look at the numbers like this, since digital data has been sold, people flow to convenient people I wonder if it is just ....