Posted October 27, 200915 yr http://www.ozap.com/actu/uk-single-digital...physique/307544 A computer-generated translation : UK: the digital single crushes the single physical -------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ 19/01/09 Music: 40 billion illegal downloads in 2008 Posted by Romain Heuillard Tuesday, October 27, 2009 18h02 -------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ i record sales are in freefall since 2002, as evidenced by the latest figures of SNEP, the CD single short for him to ruin, but the benefit of downloading beating this year a new record. This indicates that the latest figures from the BPI (British Phonographic Industry), the British equivalent of our union to defend the record industry. The English should have bought 117.6 million pieces per unit at the end of 2009, with 98.6% in digital form. The influx of new and increasing demands have legal according to the BPI largely contributed to establishing this new record. And there were 116 million legal downloads only 1.6 million against sales of CD single. Retail sales of singles by format Physical Digital Total 2002 43.9m - 43.9m 2003 30.8m - 30.8m 2004 26.5m 5.7m #32.2m 2005 21.4m 26.4m 47.8m 2006 13.9m 53.0m 66.9m 2007 8.6m 77.9m 86.5m 2008 4.9m 110.2m 115.1m 2009 YTD 1.6m 116.0m 117.6m The single paperless, an impulse buy Unlike the album continues to outsell physical form, the CD single has benefited from the advent of dematerialization. In the United Kingdom, only 43.9 million tracks were sold individually in 2002, before the democratization of illegal downloading yet, but also and especially before the arrival of the first online legal tender. The single seems to actually be more suited to the sale materialized. Its value and its duration are most often an impulse buy, representative of the mode of mass consumption of music. An album meets in contrast to another approach, which still justifies the acquisition of physical media. The idea of abandoning the production of albums for the benefit of multiple single fact about it's long way ... Initially assigned to the group Radiohead, who have been denied, the idea still seems to hover over the music industry. The disappearance of the CD with it actually would entail the disappearance of certain uses. The album of a dozen tracks as we know it today, forced to perform an audio CD about 60 minutes, actually have more reason to be in an era of paperless while .. . NB, the article seemed to end at that point.
October 27, 200915 yr Very interesting read! Thanks vidcapper. Get rid off the physical format I would say. Just leave it for the collectors! :w00t:
October 28, 200915 yr Great figures,thanks for posting. Slightly confusing in places with the translation! Physiclas have slumped even this year quite badly. I wonder if this is their nadir, or whether companies will do away with them entirely. More and more releases even from big acts are becoming digital only. I'm a dinosaur, I still love my CDS, I think there's still a small loyal market worth exploiting personally :-)
October 28, 200915 yr maybe they should put more of a weight on Physical because they always cost considerably more than digital....
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