Nedladdning växer mer än skivförsäljningen minskar

Postat: 2006-05-05 kl. 00.06

En månad gammal artikel från Arstechnica som tittar på RIAA:s siffror från såld musik i USA mellan 2002 och 2005. Naturligtvis hittar de en nedgång för skivförsäljningen, men ökningen av nedladdningsköp täcker upp den minskningen:

Looking at the numbers over the past few years, two things stand out. One is the overall decline in sales of physical media (e.g., CDs, CD singles, vinyl, music videos, and DVDs), from 860 million units in 2002 to 749 million last year—almost 13 percent. More importantly, legal downloads have gone from zero to 554 million in two years. Perhaps most telling is that despite a decline of 151 million units of physical media sold since 2002, revenues have only dropped by US$340 million—about 2.7 percent.

This should be good news for the record companies. Instead, they're using the figures to paint a gloomy picture of declining music sales, continuing to blame evil college students and others sharing music over campus networks as well as file sharers from all walks of life for their problems.

CD sales may be slipping, but paid downloads are growing at a much faster rate than CD sales are declining.

Arstechnica RIAA crying wolf all the way to the bank (2006-04-06)

Siffrorna för Sverige ser säkert mer negativa ut, men det beror mer på att vi ligger något år efteråt i utbredningen och användningen av de digitala butikerna.