2005년 전세계 디지털 음악시장이 11억달러 규모

IFPI(International Federation of the Phonographic Industry)의 조사에 따르면 2005년에 전세계 디지털 음악시장이 11억달러 규모에 달하는것으로 나타났다.

더불어 최근 Frost & Sullivan가 발표한 자료에 따르면 유럽의 모바일 음악 시장은 2011년까지 95억달러(7.85 billion Euros)에 이를것으로 전망하고 있다.


-- Digital & mobile sales of $1.1 billion for record companies - up from $380 million the previous year, and making up 6 percent of all music sales.

-- Users downloaded 420 million single tracks from legal sites - twenty times more than two years earlier - while the volume of music licensed by record companies doubled to over 2 million songs.

-- The number of users of subscription services, such as Rhapsody and Napster, increased from 1.5 to 2.8 million globally in 2005.

-- In U.S., single downloads doubled year-on-year to 353 million units in 2005. Album downloads rose to 16 million and accounted for nearly 3 percent of the total U.S. album market.

-- In UK and Germany, research indicates more music fans are legally downloading music than illegally file-swapping (though I find that hard to believe)

-- Mobile music now accounts for approximately 40% of record company digital revenues.

-- Last year global consumers bought over 60 million portable digital mobile players, worth an estimated $9 billion.

-- 20 million digital tracks were bought in the week after Christmas in U.S.

-- Globally, there are now more than 335 legal download sites, up from 50 two years ago.

관련기사:Global digital music sales triple to US$1.1 billion in 2005 as new market takes shape