Comments on: Music industry fighting for its future http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2007/01/28/music-industry-fighting-for-its-future/ Top Technology news Mon, 13 Feb 2012 11:40:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Melissa Donnelly http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2007/01/28/music-industry-fighting-for-its-future/comment-page-1/#comment-3889 Melissa Donnelly Mon, 29 Jan 2007 03:37:44 +0000 http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2007/01/28/music-industry-fighting-for-its-future/#comment-3889 The IFPI's report, whilst very valid in some respects, does not reflect entire music industry sales to the consumer - digital OR physical. I would recommend you take a look at PricewaterhouseCoopers' Entertainment & Media Outlook which does a great job of looking at retail sales of music in all its formats. It's important to remember that the IFPI can only reflect the revenues reported by its members - the music labels - which ignore the revenues earned by other players in the industry such as composers and publishers. Our company recently cut some data which endeavoured to reflect overall retail sales of music and it showed that digital music - online and mobile - will outsell physical music this year in Asia and by 2009 globally. In the Asian context, it is mobile music (monos to polys to ringback tones and full track downloads) that dominate. This reflects Asia's love affair with the mobile phone which is seeing subscriptions in markets like China and India being added to the tune of several million per month. Just another perspective on this for your readers..... The IFPI’s report, whilst very valid in some respects, does not reflect entire music industry sales to the consumer – digital OR physical. I would recommend you take a look at PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Entertainment & Media Outlook which does a great job of looking at retail sales of music in all its formats.

It’s important to remember that the IFPI can only reflect the revenues reported by its members – the music labels – which ignore the revenues earned by other players in the industry such as composers and publishers.

Our company recently cut some data which endeavoured to reflect overall retail sales of music and it showed that digital music – online and mobile – will outsell physical music this year in Asia and by 2009 globally. In the Asian context, it is mobile music (monos to polys to ringback tones and full track downloads) that dominate. This reflects Asia’s love affair with the mobile phone which is seeing subscriptions in markets like China and India being added to the tune of several million per month.

Just another perspective on this for your readers…..

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