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Study Says Only 40% Digital Music By 2012
2008/4/10
Digital sales of music represented 10% of the total worldwide music market in '07 up from 6% in '06, according to In-Stat. By 2012, digital music sales will represent 40% of all music purchased worldwide.

Factors contributing to this growth include the global expansion of broadband, demand for single-track downloads and market growth in mobile downloads to mobile handsets in markets beyond Japan wear over-the-air already dominates. Recent research by In-Stat found the following:

Sales for online digital music reached $3.05 billion in 2007, up 48% from 2006.

Revenue for worldwide full track mobile downloads will reach approximately $4.2 billion by 2012.

Most who accessed online video (72.3%) in 2007 did not pay for the video they saw

40% by 2008 worldwide seems like slow growth to me and others have predicted more aggressive numbers.
What do you predict?你預測呢?


EMI Wins ASCAP Publisher Of The Year
2008/4/10

Last night, EMI Music Publishing was named publisher of the year for a record 14th time by ASCAP at their annual Pop Music Awards. EMI songwriters including Fergie, Beyonce, Nelly Furtado and Stargate’s Tor Eric Hermansen also won ASCAP awards.

In other good news for EMI, NME announced the shortlist for their first ever American awards. Lots of EMI artists were nominated including EMI Music’s Jamie T, Babyshambles and Lily Allen and EMI Music Publishing’s Arctic Monkeys, Babyshambles, Amy Winehouse, Arcade Fire, Santogold, My Chemical Romance, Sam Sparro, Mark Ronson, Bloc Party, The Enemy and Duffy.

第25屆ASCAP(美國版權協會)流行音樂頒獎禮前日(4月9日)於洛杉磯舉行，音樂監製Timbaland(提姆巴蘭)成為大贏家，除獲得年度作曲人大獎外，今年入圍的歌曲中更有9首出自他手筆。而菲姬(Fergie)的大熱作品《Big Girls Don't Cry》及關史蒂芬妮(Gwen Stefani)的《The Sweet Escape》同獲年度歌曲大獎，平分秋色，賈斯汀(Justin Timberlake)則獲得多個音樂大獎，而Lionel Richie亦從好友Quincy Jones手上接過Golden Note大獎，其養女妮可-里奇(Nicole Richie)亦有到場支持。