Global digital music sales overtake physical formats

[Kevin Lancaster]

Global digital music sales overtake physical formats

Digital music now outsells physical formats worldwide, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal.

 

[ponder]

But piracy....

 

[supersunbird]

The report was based on the IFPI’s Global Music Report for 2015, which stated that digital music accounted for 45% of all purchases last year.

So what's the other, at minimum, 11% that's not digital or physical?

 

[backstreetboy]

http://www.bandwidthblog.com/2016/03/24/music-streaming-digital-downloads/

Just as digital music sales overtook those of CDs two years ago, music streaming has finally beaten out the review from both downloads and compact discs.