Finally the sales of digital distribution music in the whole world exceeds the sales of CD

In the sales of digital distribution music and analog CDs sold worldwide in 2014, for the first time that digital distribution music overtook sales of CD is an international record industry group "IFPI"Revealed.

IFPI publishes Digital Music Report 2015
http://www.ifpi.org/news/Global-digital-music-revenues-match-physical-format-sales-for-first-time

Digital-Music Sales Overtake CDs for First Time - WSJ
http://www.wsj.com/article_email/digital-music-sales-overtake-cds-for-first-time-1429034467-lMyQjAxMTI1NjE4NDAxMjQzWj

Digital music revenue overtakes CD sales for the first time globally | The Verge
http://www.theverge.com/2015/4/15/8419567/digital-physical-music-sales-overtake-globally

Sales of music distributed digitally in 2014 is about 6.9 billion dollars (820 billion yen), whereas sales of CD are about 6.8 billion dollars (about 810 billion yen), for the first time digital distribution music sells CD sales Overtake. The graph below shows the trends in sales over the past 10 years and it is clear that as sales of CDs have steadily declined at a stretch as digital distribution steadily increased its sales It is getting.


Looking at the detailed breakdown, the total sales of the music industry of the whole world is 14.97 billion dollars (about 1.7 trillion yen), which is not significantly changed from 2013 as a whole in the industry, only 0.6% I am going down. CD sales declined by 8.1% from the previous year to 6,820 million dollars (about 810 billion yen) and digital distribution songs increased by 6.9% from the previous year to 6.85 billion dollars (about 8150 billion yen) . Digital distribution and CD sales account for approximately 46% of total revenue, respectively. In addition, other 8% are obtained from the usage fee for radio broadcasting and TV programs.


The online service of billing system or music distribution with advertisement has grown rapidly by 39% since 2013. Billing system services are equivalent to 23% of digital distribution revenue, reaching 1.57 billion dollars (about 180 billion yen), while advertised digital distribution is only about 9% of revenue. In addition, download distribution accounts for 52% of sales of digital distribution, but the proportion of the whole is decreasing by 8% when compared with the time of 2013. According to Francis Moore of IFPI, "Billing streaming delivery is dominant in the current music industry."

Companies developing digital distribution services such as Apple and Spotify are contested that they have not paid adequate royalties to artists, but they show the importance of rapid growth of digital distribution to the music industry.

The format of digital distribution also varies from country to country, and streaming distribution is the main stream in Sweden and Korea, but download distribution is the main stream in Canada and Australia. In the graph below, the purple graph shows download distribution and the red graph shows the ratio of streaming distribution, which shows which digital distribution method is preferred in each country.


Although digital distribution is growing force all over the world, there are countries where CD accounts for 78% of sales of the music industry as a whole like in Japan, and as a country other than Japan where the CD sales ratio is still high, France (57 %) And Germany (70%). In 2015, "YouTube Music Key"TIDAL"Apple's new billing service"There are possibilities that the three services of the company can grow greatly.